Umstieg
German, noun
Umstieg is spelled U-M-S-T-I-E-G (7 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written German, the 18,843rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Umstieg is a German masculine noun meaning “change, switching” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, umstieg is a different word: “first/third-person singular dependent preterite of umsteigen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Wechsel von einer Sache zu einer anderen”.
What does Umstieg mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechange, switching
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular dependent preterite of umsteigen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Wechsel von einer Sache zu einer anderen
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 Umstieg
- Umstieges genitive
- Umstiegs genitive
- Umstiege plural
- Umstiegen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Umstieg in German?
Umstieg appears 2.8 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).