riegel
noun
riegel is a noun meaning “A transverse ridge of bedrock that has been exposed by glacial erosion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-I-E-G-E-L and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of riegel is riegels.
What does riegel mean?
noun
- 1
A transverse ridge of bedrock that has been exposed by glacial erosion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce riegel?
Riegel has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of riegel
- riegels plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is riegel?
Riegel appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 94,827th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does riegel come from?
Borrowed from German Riegel (“short bar”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).