Wuchs
German, noun
Wuchs is spelled W-U-C-H-S (5 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,816th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wuchs is a German masculine noun meaning “growth; growing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, wuchs is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of wachsen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Entwicklung, das Größerwerden von Pflanzen, Tieren, Menschen”.
What does Wuchs mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegrowth; growing
- 2
masculineform; shape; build (the way something has grown)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of wachsen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. die Entwicklung, das Größerwerden von Pflanzen, Tieren, Menschen 2. die Art, das Erscheinungsbild von etwas Gewachsenem 3. die Gesamtheit der gewachsenen Anpflanzung
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 Wuchs
- Wuchses genitive
- Wüchse plural
- Wuchse dative singular
- Wüchsen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Wuchs
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Wuchs in German?
Wuchs appears 13 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).