pedant
German, adjective
pedant is spelled P-E-D-A-N-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 116,815th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pedant is a German adjective meaning “alternative form of pedantisch; pedantic; punctilious; meticulous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Pedant is a different word: “pedant (person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial…”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas übertrieben genau nehmend; kleinlich”.
What does pedant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Austriaalternative form of pedantisch; pedantic; punctilious; meticulous
noun
- 1
masculinepedant (person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ein in übertriebener Weise genauer, kleinlicher Mensch
adjective: 1. etwas übertrieben genau nehmend; kleinlich
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 pedant
- pedanter masculine nominative singular
- am pedantesten superlative
- pedante feminine nominative singular
- pedantes neuter nominative singular
- pedanten genitive masculine singular
- pedantem dative masculine singular
- der pedante definite includes-article masculine
- die pedante definite feminine includes-article
- das pedante definite includes-article neuter
- die pedanten definite includes-article nominative
- des pedanten definite genitive includes-article
- der pedanten definite feminine genitive
- dem pedanten dative definite includes-article
- Pedantin feminine
- Pedanten nominative plural
- pedantisch variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pedant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pedant in German?
pedant appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).