lax
German, adjective/laks/
lax is spelled L-A-X (3 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 43,091st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lax is a German adjective meaning “lax” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht streng (in der Auslegung von Regeln)”.
What does lax mean in English?
adjective
- 1
lax
- 2
easy, loose
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. nicht streng (in der Auslegung von Regeln)
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 lax
- laxer masculine nominative singular
- am laxesten superlative
- laxe feminine nominative singular
- laxes neuter nominative singular
- laxen genitive masculine singular
- laxem dative masculine singular
- der laxe definite includes-article masculine
- die laxe definite feminine includes-article
- das laxe definite includes-article neuter
- die laxen definite includes-article nominative
- des laxen definite genitive includes-article
- der laxen definite feminine genitive
- dem laxen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lax?
- /laks/
- [laks]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lax
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lax in German?
lax 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).