Belang
German, noun
Belang is spelled B-E-L-A-N-G (6 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written German, the 34,584th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Belang is a German masculine noun meaning “relevance, importance, significance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, belang is a different word: “singular imperative of belangen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Bedeutung, Wichtigkeit”.
What does Belang mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerelevance, importance, significance
verb
- 1
singular imperative of belangen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of belangen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bedeutung, Wichtigkeit 2. von Bedeutung oder Wichtigkeit für etwas oder jemanden (sein) 3. von keiner Bedeutung oder Wichtigkeit für etwas oder jemanden (sein) 4. etwas oder jemand von Bedeutung oder Wichtigkeit
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 Belang
- Belanges genitive
- Belangs genitive
- Belange plural
- Belangen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Belang
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Belang in German?
Belang appears 1.2 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).