Mumpitz
German, noun/ˈmʊmpɪt͡s/
Mumpitz is spelled M-U-M-P-I-T-Z (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 80,178th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mumpitz is a German masculine noun meaning “nonsense, bullshit (something wrong or unimportant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Unsinn, den man nicht zu beachten braucht”.
What does Mumpitz mean in English?
noun
- 1
informalmasculinenonsense, bullshit (something wrong or unimportant)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unsinn, den man nicht zu beachten braucht
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 Mumpitz
- Mumpitzes genitive
- Mumpitze dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Mumpitz?
- /ˈmʊmpɪt͡s/
- [ˈmʊmˌpɪt͡s]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Mumpitz
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Mumpitz in German?
Mumpitz 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).