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tyrannisch

German, adjective[tyˈʁanɪʃ]

tyrannisch is spelled T-Y-R-A-N-N-I-S-C-H (10 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 163,492nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tyrannisch is a German adjective meaning “tyrannical” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “andere bevormundend, unterdrückend, autoritär und schlecht behandelnd (tyrannisierend)”.

What does tyrannisch mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    tyrannical

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. andere bevormundend, unterdrückend, autoritär und schlecht behandelnd (tyrannisierend) 2. sich wie ein Gewaltherrscher (Tyrann) aufführend

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 tyrannisch

  • tyrannischer masculine nominative singular
  • am tyrannischsten superlative
  • tyrannische feminine nominative singular
  • tyrannisches neuter nominative singular
  • tyrannischen genitive masculine singular
  • tyrannischem dative masculine singular
  • der tyrannische definite includes-article masculine
  • die tyrannische definite feminine includes-article
  • das tyrannische definite includes-article neuter
  • die tyrannischen definite includes-article nominative
  • des tyrannischen definite genitive includes-article
  • der tyrannischen definite feminine genitive
  • dem tyrannischen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce tyrannisch?

  • [tyˈʁanɪʃ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to tyrannisch

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is tyrannisch in German?

tyrannisch appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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