Quälgeist
German, noun[ˈkvɛːlˌɡaɪ̯st]
Quälgeist is spelled Q-U-Ä-L-G-E-I-S-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 182,294th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quälgeist is a German masculine noun meaning “gadfly, pest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person, die andere hartnäckig und beharrlich belästigt, nervt und bedrängt”.
What does Quälgeist mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinegadfly, pest
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person, die andere hartnäckig und beharrlich belästigt, nervt und bedrängt
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 Quälgeist
- Quälgeistes genitive
- Quälgeists genitive
- Quälgeister plural
- Quälgeiste dative singular
- Quälgeistern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Quälgeist?
- [ˈkvɛːlˌɡaɪ̯st]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Quälgeist
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Quälgeist in German?
Quälgeist appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).