Kontrollzwang
German, noun/kɔnˈtrɔlˌt͡svaŋ/
Kontrollzwang is spelled K-O-N-T-R-O-L-L-Z-W-A-N-G (13 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written German, the 257,657th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kontrollzwang is a German masculine noun meaning “compulsion to control” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “zwanghafter Drang, Gegenstände und/oder Personen zu überprüfen, um potentielle Gefahren zu vermeiden”.
What does Kontrollzwang mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecompulsion to control
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. zwanghafter Drang, Gegenstände und/oder Personen zu überprüfen, um potentielle Gefahren zu vermeiden
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 Kontrollzwang
- Kontrollzwanges genitive
- Kontrollzwangs genitive
- Kontrollzwänge plural
- Kontrollzwange dative singular
- Kontrollzwängen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Kontrollzwang?
- /kɔnˈtrɔlˌt͡svaŋ/
- [kɔnˈtʁɔlˌt͡svaŋ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Kontrollzwang in German?
Kontrollzwang appears about once in every 20 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).