Dingsbums
German, noun/ˈdɪŋsbʊms/
Dingsbums is spelled D-I-N-G-S-B-U-M-S (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 91,399th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dingsbums is a German feminine noun meaning “thingy, thingie, thingamajig, thingamabob (something whose name one cannot recall)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemand oder etwas, dessen Namen der sprechenden Person gerade nicht einfällt oder dessen Namen die sprechende…”.
What does Dingsbums mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialfemininemasculineneuterthingy, thingie, thingamajig, thingamabob (something whose name one cannot recall)
- 2
colloquialfemininemasculineneuterwhosit, whatshisname (a person whose name one cannot recall)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. jemand oder etwas, dessen Namen der sprechenden Person gerade nicht einfällt oder dessen Namen die sprechende Person nicht kennt
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 Dingsbums
- Dingsbumse plural
- Dingsbumsen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Dingsbums?
- /ˈdɪŋsbʊms/
- [ˈdɪŋsbʊms]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Dingsbums
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Dingsbums in German?
Dingsbums appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).