Okkasionalismus
German, noun/ɔkazi̯onaˈlɪsmʊs/
Okkasionalismus is spelled O-K-K-A-S-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-M-U-S (15 letters) and appears about once in every 76 million words in written German, the 543,077th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Okkasionalismus is a German masculine noun meaning “nonce word” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “neu gebildetes Wort, aus einer speziellen Situation heraus, das noch nicht zum Wortschatz der Sprache gehört”.
What does Okkasionalismus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenonce word
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. neu gebildetes Wort, aus einer speziellen Situation heraus, das noch nicht zum Wortschatz der Sprache gehört
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 Okkasionalismus
- Okkasionalismen plural
- Occasionalismus alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Okkasionalismus?
- /ɔkazi̯onaˈlɪsmʊs/
- [ɔkazi̯onaˈlɪsmʊs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Okkasionalismus in German?
Okkasionalismus appears about once in every 76 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).