Bünzli
German, noun/ˈbʏnt͡sli/
Bünzli is spelled B-Ü-N-Z-L-I (6 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written German, the 343,581st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bünzli is a German masculine noun meaning “square (someone subscribing complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person, deren Denken und Verhalten als bieder, engstirnig, kleinkariert angesehen wird”.
What does Bünzli mean in English?
noun
- 1
Switzerlandderogatorymasculinesquare (someone subscribing complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person, deren Denken und Verhalten als bieder, engstirnig, kleinkariert angesehen wird
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 Bünzli
- Bünzlis genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Bünzli?
- /ˈbʏnt͡sli/
- [ˈbʏnt͡sli]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Bünzli in German?
Bünzli appears about once in every 34 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).