Vertrieb
German, noun
Vertrieb is spelled V-E-R-T-R-I-E-B (8 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written German, the 6,059th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vertrieb is a German masculine noun meaning “sale, sales distribution, marketing, trafficking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, vertrieb is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of vertreiben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gesamtheit der Maßnahmen eines Unternehmens, die dem Absatz der hergestellten oder gehandelten Produkte auf…”.
What does Vertrieb mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesale, sales distribution, marketing, trafficking
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of vertreiben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gesamtheit der Maßnahmen eines Unternehmens, die dem Absatz der hergestellten oder gehandelten Produkte auf dem Markt dienen 2. Abteilung eines Unternehmens, die den Vertrieb [1] abwickelt
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 Vertrieb
- Vertriebes genitive
- Vertriebs genitive
- Vertriebe plural
- Vertrieben dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Vertrieb
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Vertrieb in German?
Vertrieb appears 12 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).