blank
German, adjective/blaŋk/
blank is spelled B-L-A-N-K (5 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written German, the 12,890th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blank is a German adjective meaning “spotlessly clean, shining, polished” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “(metallisch) hell schimmernd”.
What does blank mean in English?
adjective
- 1
archaicbright
- 2
spotlessly clean, shining, polished
Du musst die Platte blank scheuern.
- 3
bare, naked, uncovered
mit blankem Hintern
- 4
pure, sheer
Blanke Wut packte ihn.
- 5
colloquialbroke, out of money
- 6
being a player’s last one of a respective grouping of cards (which means that the card is unprotected when the player must follow suit in trick-taking games)
Hätte ich Trumpf ausgespielt, wäre mein Fuchs blank gewesen.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. (metallisch) hell schimmernd 2. offen, bloß; klar ersichtlich, rein 3. ohne Geld
noun: 1. Leerstelle zwischen Schriftzeichen
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 blank
- blanker masculine nominative singular
- am blanksten superlative
- blanke feminine nominative singular
- blankes neuter nominative singular
- blanken genitive masculine singular
- blankem dative masculine singular
- der blanke definite includes-article masculine
- die blanke definite feminine includes-article
- das blanke definite includes-article neuter
- die blanken definite includes-article nominative
- des blanken definite genitive includes-article
- der blanken definite feminine genitive
- dem blanken dative definite includes-article
- am blankesten superlative
- Blanks nominative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce blank?
- /blaŋk/
- [blaŋk]
- [blɛŋk]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to blank
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is blank in German?
blank appears 4.7 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).