Blick
German, noun
Blick is spelled B-L-I-C-K (5 letters) and appears 138 times per million words in written German, the 640th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blick is a German masculine noun meaning “glance, look” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, blick is a different word: “singular imperative of blicken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(kurzes) Betrachten; Anschauen; das Erfassen von etwas mit den Augen”.
What does Blick mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineglance, look
auf den ersten Blick
- 2
masculineview
verb
- 1
singular imperative of blicken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (kurzes) Betrachten; Anschauen; das Erfassen von etwas mit den Augen 2. Augenausdruck 3. Sichtweise; Einsicht
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 Blick
- Blickes genitive
- Blicks genitive
- Blicke plural
- Blicken dative definite plural
- Blik alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Blick
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Blick in German?
Blick appears 138 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).