ekelhaft
German, adjective/ˈʔeːkl̩haft/
ekelhaft is spelled E-K-E-L-H-A-F-T (8 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written German, the 10,058th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ekelhaft is a German adjective meaning “disgusting, gross” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Ekel hervorrufend”.
What does ekelhaft mean in English?
adjective
- 1
disgusting, gross
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Ekel hervorrufend
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 ekelhaft
- ekelhafter masculine nominative singular
- am ekelhaftesten superlative
- ekelhafte feminine nominative singular
- ekelhaftes neuter nominative singular
- ekelhaften genitive masculine singular
- ekelhaftem dative masculine singular
- der ekelhafte definite includes-article masculine
- die ekelhafte definite feminine includes-article
- das ekelhafte definite includes-article neuter
- die ekelhaften definite includes-article nominative
- des ekelhaften definite genitive includes-article
- der ekelhaften definite feminine genitive
- dem ekelhaften dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ekelhaft?
- /ˈʔeːkl̩haft/
- /ˈʔeːkəlhaft/
- [ˈeːkl̩haft]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ekelhaft
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ekelhaft in German?
ekelhaft appears 6.5 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).