Handballen
German, noun
Handballen is spelled H-A-N-D-B-A-L-L-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 148,565th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Handballen is a German masculine noun meaning “ball of the thumb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Handbällen is a different word: “dative plural of Handball”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Bereich von stark ausgebildeter Muskelmasse auf der Innenseite der Handfläche, insbesondere unter dem Daumen…”.
What does Handballen mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineball of the thumb
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Handball
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bereich von stark ausgebildeter Muskelmasse auf der Innenseite der Handfläche, insbesondere unter dem Daumen an der Handwurzel
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 Handballen
- Handballens genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Handballen in German?
Handballen appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).