Knall
German, noun
Knall is spelled K-N-A-L-L (5 letters) and appears 5.6 times per million words in written German, the 11,196th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Knall is a German masculine noun meaning “crack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, knall is a different word: “singular imperative of knallen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sehr kurzes, lautes Geräusch, wie von einer Detonation erzeugt”.
What does Knall mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrack
- 2
masculinebang
- 3
masculinesnap, jounce
verb
- 1
singular imperative of knallen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of knallen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. sehr kurzes, lautes Geräusch, wie von einer Detonation erzeugt
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 Knall
- Knalles genitive
- Knalls genitive
- Knalle plural
- Knallen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Knall
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Knall in German?
Knall appears 5.6 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).