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nutzlos

German, adjective/ˈnʊtsloːs/

nutzlos is spelled N-U-T-Z-L-O-S (7 letters) and appears 6.2 times per million words in written German, the 10,439th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nutzlos is a German adjective meaning “useless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “ohne Nutzen, keinen oder nur sehr wenig Nutzen bringend, zu nichts zu gebrauchen; ohne die angestrebte Wirkung”.

What does nutzlos mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    useless

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. ohne Nutzen, keinen oder nur sehr wenig Nutzen bringend, zu nichts zu gebrauchen; ohne die angestrebte Wirkung

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 nutzlos

  • nutzloser masculine nominative singular
  • am nutzlosesten superlative
  • nutzlose feminine nominative singular
  • nutzloses neuter nominative singular
  • nutzlosen genitive masculine singular
  • nutzlosem dative masculine singular
  • der nutzlose definite includes-article masculine
  • die nutzlose definite feminine includes-article
  • das nutzlose definite includes-article neuter
  • die nutzlosen definite includes-article nominative
  • des nutzlosen definite genitive includes-article
  • der nutzlosen definite feminine genitive
  • dem nutzlosen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce nutzlos?

  • /ˈnʊtsloːs/
  • [ˈnʊt͡sloːs]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to nutzlos

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is nutzlos in German?

nutzlos appears 6.2 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).

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