frank
German, adjective/fʁaŋk/
frank is spelled F-R-A-N-K (5 letters) and appears 69 times per million words in written German, the 1,232nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frank is a German adjective meaning “frank” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “frei, ungebunden, offen”.
What does frank mean in English?
adjective
- 1
archaicfrank
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. fränkisch
adjective: 1. frei, ungebunden, offen
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 frank
- franker masculine nominative singular
- franke feminine nominative singular
- frankes neuter nominative singular
- franken genitive masculine singular
- frankem dative masculine singular
- der franke definite includes-article masculine
- die franke definite feminine includes-article
- das franke definite includes-article neuter
- die franken definite includes-article nominative
- des franken definite genitive includes-article
- der franken definite feminine genitive
- dem franken dative definite includes-article
- den franken dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frank?
- /fʁaŋk/
- [fʁaŋk]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is frank in German?
frank appears 69 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).