Zwirn
German, noun
Zwirn is spelled Z-W-I-R-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 57,755th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zwirn is a German masculine noun meaning “thread; string” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, zwirn is a different word: “singular imperative of zwirnen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Faden, der aus mehreren zusammengedrehten Garnen besteht”.
What does Zwirn mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethread; string
- 2
masculineyarn; twisted fabric
verb
- 1
singular imperative of zwirnen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of zwirnen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Faden, der aus mehreren zusammengedrehten Garnen besteht 2. Stoff aus [1]
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 Zwirn
- Zwirnes genitive
- Zwirns genitive
- Zwirne plural
- Zwirnen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Zwirn
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Zwirn in German?
Zwirn appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).