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Blödsinn

German, noun/ˈbløːtˌzɪn/

Blödsinn is spelled B-L-Ö-D-S-I-N-N (8 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written German, the 5,161st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blödsinn is a German masculine noun meaning “rubbish, nonsense; bunkum, bunk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Quatsch; unsinnige Idee; unglaubhafte Aussage”.

What does Blödsinn mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinerubbish, nonsense; bunkum, bunk

    Was für ein Blödsinn ist das?

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Quatsch; unsinnige Idee; unglaubhafte Aussage 2. störende Handlung

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 Blödsinn

  • Blödsinnes genitive
  • Blödsinns genitive
  • Blödsinne dative singular

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce Blödsinn?

  • /ˈbløːtˌzɪn/
  • Austria /ˈbløːtˌsɪn/
  • [ˈbløːtˌzɪn]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to Blödsinn

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Blödsinn in German?

Blödsinn appears 14 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).

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