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awkward

German, adjective

awkward is spelled A-W-K-W-A-R-D (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 51,196th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Awkward is a German adjective meaning “awkward, embarassing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does awkward mean in English?

adjective

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    awkward, embarassing

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

How common is awkward in German?

awkward appears about once in every 1 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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