pikant
German, adjective[piˈkant]
pikant is spelled P-I-K-A-N-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 49,558th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pikant is a German adjective meaning “piquant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “gut oder kräftig gewürzt, scharf”.
What does pikant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
piquant
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. gut oder kräftig gewürzt, scharf 2. anstößig, schlüpfrig, obszön
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 pikant
- pikanter masculine nominative singular
- am pikantesten superlative
- pikante feminine nominative singular
- pikantes neuter nominative singular
- pikanten genitive masculine singular
- pikantem dative masculine singular
- der pikante definite includes-article masculine
- die pikante definite feminine includes-article
- das pikante definite includes-article neuter
- die pikanten definite includes-article nominative
- des pikanten definite genitive includes-article
- der pikanten definite feminine genitive
- dem pikanten dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pikant?
- [piˈkant]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pikant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pikant in German?
pikant appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).