Geisteskranker
German, noun
Geisteskranker is spelled G-E-I-S-T-E-S-K-R-A-N-K-E-R (14 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 82,595th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geisteskranker is a German masculine noun meaning “lunatic, madman, (person with mental disorder)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, geisteskranker is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemand, der geisteskrank ist”.
What does Geisteskranker mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelunatic, madman, (person with mental disorder)
adjective
- 1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 3
strong genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. jemand, der geisteskrank ist
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 Geisteskranker
- der Geisteskranke definite nominative
- Geisteskranken genitive
- Geisteskranke plural
- die Geisteskranken definite plural
- Geisteskrankem dative singular strong
- des Geisteskranken genitive singular
- der Geisteskranken genitive plural
- dem Geisteskranken dative singular
- den Geisteskranken dative plural
- ein Geisteskranker nominative singular
- keine Geisteskranken nominative plural
- eines Geisteskranken genitive singular
- keiner Geisteskranken genitive plural
- einem Geisteskranken dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Geisteskranker in German?
Geisteskranker 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).