Mangel
German, noun
Mangel is spelled M-A-N-G-E-L (6 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written German, the 4,267th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mangel is a German masculine noun meaning “lack, shortage (the condition of having an insufficient amount of a resource, or none at all)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, mangel is a different word: “first-person singular present”. With an umlaut, Mängel is a different word: “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Mangel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “unzureichende Menge oder unzureichendes Ausmaß von etwas”.
What does Mangel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelack, shortage (the condition of having an insufficient amount of a resource, or none at all)
- 2
masculinedietary deficiency
Vitamin-C-Mangel / Mangel an Vitamin C
noun
- 1
femininemangle
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
noun
- 1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Mangel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. unzureichende Menge oder unzureichendes Ausmaß von etwas 2. Fehler, Unvollkommenheit bei einer Sache 3. Fehler beziehungsweise das Fehlen von zugesicherten Eigenschaften einer Sache oder eines Rechts
noun: 1. Gerät mit zwei oder mehr Rollen zum Flachwalzen von etwas, zum Auswringen nasser Wäsche 2. Maschine mit einer Rolle und einer Anpressmulde zum thermischen Glätten
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 Mangel
- Mangels genitive
- Mängel plural
- Mängeln dative definite plural
- Mangeln plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Mangel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Mangel in German?
Mangel appears 18 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).