knochentrocken
German, adjective/ˈknɔχŋ̍ˈtʁɔkŋ̍/
knochentrocken is spelled K-N-O-C-H-E-N-T-R-O-C-K-E-N (14 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 200,239th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Knochentrocken is a German adjective meaning “bone-dry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “extrem trocken”.
What does knochentrocken mean in English?
adjective
- 1
bone-dry
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. extrem trocken
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 knochentrocken
- knochentrockener masculine nominative singular
- knochentrockene feminine nominative singular
- knochentrockenes neuter nominative singular
- knochentrockenen genitive masculine singular
- knochentrockenem dative masculine singular
- der knochentrockene definite includes-article masculine
- die knochentrockene definite feminine includes-article
- das knochentrockene definite includes-article neuter
- die knochentrockenen definite includes-article nominative
- des knochentrockenen definite genitive includes-article
- der knochentrockenen definite feminine genitive
- dem knochentrockenen dative definite includes-article
- den knochentrockenen dative definite includes-article
- knochentrockner positive nominative strong
- knochentrockne positive nominative strong
- knochentrocknes positive nominative strong
- knochentrocknen positive genitive strong
- knochentrocknem positive dative strong
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce knochentrocken?
- /ˈknɔχŋ̍ˈtʁɔkŋ̍/
- [ˈknɔxn̩ˈtʁɔkn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is knochentrocken in German?
knochentrocken appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).