bankrott
German, adjective
bankrott is spelled B-A-N-K-R-O-T-T (8 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,546th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bankrott is a German adjective meaning “bankrupt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bankrott is a different word: “bankruptcy”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht mehr zahlungsfähig”.
What does bankrott mean in English?
adjective
- 1
bankrupt
noun
- 1
masculinebankruptcy
- 2
masculineone of any certain behaviours constituting a criminal offence for abstractly endangering an insolvency estate under § 283 StGB
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. nicht mehr zahlungsfähig
noun: 1. Unfähigkeit, seinen Zahlungsverpflichtungen nachzukommen, finanzieller Zusammenbruch
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 bankrott
- bankrotter masculine nominative singular
- bankrotte feminine nominative singular
- bankrottes neuter nominative singular
- bankrotten genitive masculine singular
- bankrottem dative masculine singular
- der bankrotte definite includes-article masculine
- die bankrotte definite feminine includes-article
- das bankrotte definite includes-article neuter
- die bankrotten definite includes-article nominative
- des bankrotten definite genitive includes-article
- der bankrotten definite feminine genitive
- dem bankrotten dative definite includes-article
- den bankrotten dative definite includes-article
- bankerott variant archaic
- Bankerott variant archaic
- Bankrotte nominative plural
- Bankrotts genitive singular
- Bankrottes genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bankrott
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bankrott in German?
bankrott appears 2.5 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).