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Zwicker

German, noun/ˈt͡svɪkɐ/

Zwicker is spelled Z-W-I-C-K-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 96,776th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zwicker is a German masculine noun meaning “pince-nez” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Brille, die keine Bügel hat und nur auf die Nase geklemmt wird”.

What does Zwicker mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepince-nez

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

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Brille, die keine Bügel hat und nur auf die Nase geklemmt wird 2. eine etwas einfachere Variante des Edelzwickers, die aus einem Cuveé der einfachen Grundtrauben Gutedel und Silvaner hergestellt 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 Zwicker

  • Zwickers genitive
  • Zwickern dative definite plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce Zwicker?

  • /ˈt͡svɪkɐ/
  • [ˈt͡svɪkɐ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is Zwicker in German?

Zwicker appears about once in every 4 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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