kryptisch
German, adjective/ˈkʁʏptɪʃ/
kryptisch is spelled K-R-Y-P-T-I-S-C-H (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 75,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kryptisch is a German adjective meaning “cryptic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “unverständlich oder unklar in der Ausdrucksweise oder Darstellung”.
What does kryptisch mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cryptic
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. unverständlich oder unklar in der Ausdrucksweise oder Darstellung 2. verschlüsselt im Sinne der in der Informationstechnik angewandten Kryptologie
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 kryptisch
- kryptischer masculine nominative singular
- am kryptischsten superlative
- kryptische feminine nominative singular
- kryptisches neuter nominative singular
- kryptischen genitive masculine singular
- kryptischem dative masculine singular
- der kryptische definite includes-article masculine
- die kryptische definite feminine includes-article
- das kryptische definite includes-article neuter
- die kryptischen definite includes-article nominative
- des kryptischen definite genitive includes-article
- der kryptischen definite feminine genitive
- dem kryptischen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kryptisch?
- /ˈkʁʏptɪʃ/
- [ˈkʁʏptɪʃ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kryptisch
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kryptisch in German?
kryptisch appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).