Bims
German, noun
Bims is spelled B-I-M-S (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 49,558th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bims is a German masculine noun meaning “pumice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, bims is a different word: “singular imperative of bimsen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “poröses, glasiges Vulkangestein, aus dem häufig Bausteine hergestellt werden”.
What does Bims mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepumice
verb
- 1
singular imperative of bimsen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. poröses, glasiges Vulkangestein, aus dem häufig Bausteine hergestellt werden
noun: 1. der Kram, der Plunder
noun: 1. Geld
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 Bims
- Bimses genitive
- Bimse plural
- Bimsen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Bims
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Bims in German?
Bims 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).