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plemplem

German, adjective/plɛmˈplɛm/

plemplem is spelled P-L-E-M-P-L-E-M (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 170,338th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plemplem is a German adjective meaning “nuts, crazy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht recht bei Verstand”.

What does plemplem mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    colloquialnuts, crazy

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. nicht recht bei Verstand

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 plemplem

  • plemplemer masculine nominative singular
  • am plemplemsten superlative
  • plempleme feminine nominative singular
  • plemplemes neuter nominative singular
  • plemplemen genitive masculine singular
  • plemplemem dative masculine singular
  • der plempleme definite includes-article masculine
  • die plempleme definite feminine includes-article
  • das plempleme definite includes-article neuter
  • die plemplemen definite includes-article nominative
  • des plemplemen definite genitive includes-article
  • der plemplemen definite feminine genitive
  • dem plemplemen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce plemplem?

  • /plɛmˈplɛm/
  • [plɛmˈplɛm]

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

English words that translate to plemplem

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

How common is plemplem in German?

plemplem appears about once in every 10 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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