mangels
German, preposition
mangels is spelled M-A-N-G-E-L-S (7 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written German, the 6,912th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mangels is a German preposition meaning “for lack of, due to lack of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Mangels is a different word: “genitive singular of Mangel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “weil etwas fehlt, weil etwas in zu geringem Maße vorhanden ist”.
What does mangels mean in English?
preposition
- 1
for lack of, due to lack of
Mangels Geld(es) konnte ich mir kein Mittagessen kaufen.
noun
- 1
genitive singular of Mangel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
preposition: 1. weil etwas fehlt, weil etwas in zu geringem Maße vorhanden ist
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to mangels
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mangels in German?
mangels appears 10 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).