Vorgabe
German, noun
Vorgabe is spelled V-O-R-G-A-B-E (7 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written German, the 17,258th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vorgabe is a German feminine noun meaning “specification, guideline, provision” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, vorgäbe is a different word: “first/third-person singular dependent subjunctive II of vorgeben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Regelung, Richtlinie, Anspruch”.
What does Vorgabe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininespecification, guideline, provision
- 2
feminineinformalsetting, default
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular dependent subjunctive II of vorgeben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Regelung, Richtlinie, Anspruch 2. Nachteilsausgleich für schwächere Teilnehmer 3. kürzester Abstand zwischen Sprengladung und bereits freigelegter Oberfläche sowie die dort befindliche und wegzusprengende Gesteinsmenge 4. (bewusste) Vortäuschung
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 Vorgabe
- Vorgaben plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Vorgabe in German?
Vorgabe appears 3.2 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).