drakonisch
German, adjective[dʁaˈkoːnɪʃ]
drakonisch is spelled D-R-A-K-O-N-I-S-C-H (10 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written German, the 216,904th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Drakonisch is a German adjective meaning “draconian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sehr bestimmt, sehr heftig, sehr streng”.
What does drakonisch mean in English?
adjective
- 1
draconian
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. sehr bestimmt, sehr heftig, sehr streng
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 drakonisch
- drakonischer masculine nominative singular
- am drakonischsten superlative
- drakonische feminine nominative singular
- drakonisches neuter nominative singular
- drakonischen genitive masculine singular
- drakonischem dative masculine singular
- der drakonische definite includes-article masculine
- die drakonische definite feminine includes-article
- das drakonische definite includes-article neuter
- die drakonischen definite includes-article nominative
- des drakonischen definite genitive includes-article
- der drakonischen definite feminine genitive
- dem drakonischen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce drakonisch?
- [dʁaˈkoːnɪʃ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to drakonisch
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is drakonisch in German?
drakonisch appears about once in every 15 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).