Tanz
German, noun
Tanz is spelled T-A-N-Z (4 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written German, the 3,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tanz is a German masculine noun meaning “dance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, tanz is a different word: “singular imperative of tanzen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(rhythmischer) Bewegungsablauf, der zu Musik oder rhythmischen Geräuschen ausgeführt wird”.
What does Tanz mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedance
verb
- 1
singular imperative of tanzen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (rhythmischer) Bewegungsablauf, der zu Musik oder rhythmischen Geräuschen ausgeführt wird 2. Musikstück, das sich zum Tanzen eignet
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Tanz
- Tanzes genitive
- Tänze plural
- Tänzchen diminutive neuter
- Tänzlein diminutive neuter
- Tanzerl diminutive neuter
- Tanze dative singular
- Tänzen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Tanz
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Tanz in German?
Tanz appears 23 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).