Wirbel
German, noun
Wirbel is spelled W-I-R-B-E-L (6 letters) and appears 5.5 times per million words in written German, the 11,404th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wirbel is a German masculine noun meaning “whirl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, wirbel is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine um eine gemeinsame Mittellinie kreisende Strömung (Gas oder Flüssigkeit)”.
What does Wirbel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewhirl
- 2
masculinewhorl
- 3
masculinevortex
- 4
masculinevertebra
- 5
masculineeddy
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. eine um eine gemeinsame Mittellinie kreisende Strömung (Gas oder Flüssigkeit) 2. eine Stelle der Haut (zum Beispiel Kopfhaut oder Fell), an der das Haar strahlenförmig auseinandergeht 3. Knochen der Wirbelsäule 4. Vorrichtung zum Spannen der Saiten bei Saiteninstrumenten
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 Wirbel
- Wirbels genitive
- Wirbeln dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Wirbel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Wirbel in German?
Wirbel appears 5.5 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).