Lachnummer
German, noun/ˈlaχˌnʊmɐ/
Lachnummer is spelled L-A-C-H-N-U-M-M-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 50,363rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lachnummer is a German feminine noun meaning “laughing stock” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Sache, Person oder Verhalten, über die/das man nur lachen kann; etwas, das man nicht ernst nimmt und über das…”.
What does Lachnummer mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialfemininelaughing stock
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sache, Person oder Verhalten, über die/das man nur lachen kann; etwas, das man nicht ernst nimmt und über das man sich lustig macht
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 Lachnummer
- Lachnummern plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Lachnummer?
- /ˈlaχˌnʊmɐ/
- [ˈlaxˌnʊmɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Lachnummer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Lachnummer in German?
Lachnummer 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).