Gnom
German, noun/ɡnoːm/
Gnom is spelled G-N-O-M (4 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 74,397th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gnom is a German masculine noun meaning “gnome, goblin, dwarf” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Fabelwesen, je nach Erzählung mit unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsbildern und Eigenschaften”.
What does Gnom mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinegnome, goblin, dwarf
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fabelwesen, je nach Erzählung mit unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsbildern und Eigenschaften
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 Gnom
- Gnomen colloquial genitive literary
- Gnoms colloquial genitive
- Gnome colloquial plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Gnom?
- /ɡnoːm/
- [ɡnoːm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Gnom
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Gnom in German?
Gnom 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).