Buckelwal
German, noun/ˈbʊkəlvaːl/
Buckelwal is spelled B-U-C-K-E-L-W-A-L (9 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 170,338th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buckelwal is a German masculine noun meaning “humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Meeressäugetier, das in den Ozeanen lebt und unter weltweitem Artenschutz steht”.
What does Buckelwal mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehumpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ein Meeressäugetier, das in den Ozeanen lebt und unter weltweitem Artenschutz steht
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 Buckelwal
- Buckelwales genitive
- Buckelwals genitive
- Buckelwale plural
- Buckelwalen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Buckelwal?
- /ˈbʊkəlvaːl/
- [ˈbʊkl̩vaːl]
- [ˈbʊkl̩ˌvaːl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Buckelwal in German?
Buckelwal appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).