Zoff
German, noun
Zoff is spelled Z-O-F-F (4 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 32,981st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zoff is a German masculine noun meaning “trouble, beef, fight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, zoff is a different word: “singular imperative of zoffen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “heftige Auseinandersetzung; durch Meinungsverschiedenheiten, Zwist hervorgerufene Gereiztheit oder Spannung…”.
What does Zoff mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinetrouble, beef, fight
Jenny hat schon wieder Zoff mit ihrem Alten.
verb
- 1
singular imperative of zoffen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of zoffen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. heftige Auseinandersetzung; durch Meinungsverschiedenheiten, Zwist hervorgerufene Gereiztheit oder Spannung; heftiger Unmut 2. Zeitpunkt, an dem etwas endet beziehungsweise beendigt wird
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 Zoff
- Zoffs genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Zoff in German?
Zoff appears 1.3 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).