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Columbo

German, noun

Columbo is spelled C-O-L-U-M-B-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 72,255th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Columbo is a German masculine noun meaning “Sherlock; used to refer to someone who expresses the obvious while not being aware of its obviousness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does Columbo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineSherlock; used to refer to someone who expresses the obvious while not being aware of its obviousness

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

How common is Columbo in German?

Columbo appears about once in every 3 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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