Pinkel
German, noun
Pinkel is spelled P-I-N-K-E-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 58,632nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pinkel is a German masculine noun meaning “dandy, toff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, pinkel is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemand, der sich für vornehm hält und übertrieben so aufführt”.
What does Pinkel mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinedandy, toff
ein feiner Pinkel
noun
- 1
femininetype of smoked blood sausage
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. jemand, der sich für vornehm hält und übertrieben so aufführt
noun: 1. geräucherte Kohlwurst
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 Pinkel
- Pinkels genitive
- Pinkeln dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Pinkel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Pinkel in German?
Pinkel appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).