Clown
German, noun/klaʊ̯n/
Clown is spelled C-L-O-W-N (5 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written German, the 11,619th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clown is a German masculine noun meaning “clown (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person, die vor Publikum (vor allem im Zirkus) in auffälligen Kostümen auftritt und Späße macht”.
What does Clown mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineclown (male or of unspecified gender)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person, die vor Publikum (vor allem im Zirkus) in auffälligen Kostümen auftritt und Späße macht 2. alberner, nicht ernst zu nehmender Mensch
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 Clown
- Clowns genitive
- Clownin feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Clown?
- /klaʊ̯n/
- /kloːn/
- [klaʊ̯n]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Clown
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Clown in German?
Clown appears 5.4 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).