Qual
German, noun
Qual is spelled Q-U-A-L (4 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written German, the 10,826th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Qual is a German feminine noun meaning “agony, anguish, torment, torture (that one suffers)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, quäl is a different word: “singular imperative of quälen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Schmerz, Leid, etwas physisch oder psychisch Belastendes”.
What does Qual mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineagony, anguish, torment, torture (that one suffers)
verb
- 1
singular imperative of quälen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Schmerz, Leid, etwas physisch oder psychisch Belastendes
abbreviation: 1. qualifiziert 2. qualitativ
abbreviation: 1. Qualifikation 2. Qualifizierung 3. Qualität
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 Qual
- Qualen plural
- qualit. alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Qual
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Qual in German?
Qual appears 5.9 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).