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VS

German, noun

VS is spelled V-S (2 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written German, the 3,122nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). VS is a German noun meaning “abbreviation of Verhandlungssache” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, vs is a different word: “plural of v”. With a capital, Vs is a different word: “plural of V”.

What does VS mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    abbreviation of Verhandlungssache

noun

as vs
  1. 1

    plural of v

noun

as Vs
  1. 1

    plural of V

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

How German dictionaries define it

abbreviation: 1. versus 2. väterlicherseits

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How common is VS in German?

VS appears 26 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).

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