kauderwelsch
German, adjective
kauderwelsch is a German adjective meaning “gibberish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kauderwelsch is a different word: “gibberish, gobbledygook”.
What does kauderwelsch mean in English?
adjective
- 1
gibberish
noun
- 1
neutergibberish, gobbledygook
- 2
neuterobsoleteThe variety of Romansch spoken in the Swiss town of Chur (Kauder) in canton Graubünden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. schwer- oder unverständliche Sprache; aus Elementen verschiedener Sprachen gemischte Ausdrucksweise, fehlerhafte Ausdrucksweise
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 kauderwelsch
- Kauderwelschs genitive
- kauderwelscher masculine nominative singular
- kauderwelsche feminine nominative singular
- kauderwelsches neuter nominative singular
- kauderwelschen genitive masculine singular
- kauderwelschem dative masculine singular
- der kauderwelsche definite includes-article masculine
- die kauderwelsche definite feminine includes-article
- das kauderwelsche definite includes-article neuter
- die kauderwelschen definite includes-article nominative
- des kauderwelschen definite genitive includes-article
- der kauderwelschen definite feminine genitive
- dem kauderwelschen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to kauderwelsch
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kauderwelsch in German?
kauderwelsch appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).