Tirade
German, noun[tiˈʁaːdə]
Tirade is spelled T-I-R-A-D-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 96,776th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tirade is a German feminine noun meaning “tirade (meaningless utterance; torrent of words)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “anhaltender Redeschwall”.
What does Tirade mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetirade (meaningless utterance; torrent of words)
- 2
femininerun of rapidly successive tones as an ornament between two tones of a melody
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. anhaltender Redeschwall 2. eine Strophenform, in der schnell aufeinanderfolgende Töne in einem Lauf gespielt werden
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 Tirade
- Tiraden plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Tirade?
- [tiˈʁaːdə]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Tirade
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Tirade in German?
Tirade appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).