Zwang
German, noun
Zwang is spelled Z-W-A-N-G (5 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,583rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zwang is a German masculine noun meaning “compulsion, obligation, duress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, zwang is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of zwingen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “innerer oder äußerer Druck, etwas zu tun”.
What does Zwang mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecompulsion, obligation, duress
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of zwingen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. innerer oder äußerer Druck, etwas zu tun
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 Zwang
- Zwanges genitive
- Zwangs genitive
- Zwänge plural
- Zwange dative singular
- Zwängen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Zwang
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Zwang in German?
Zwang 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).