Rinderwahnsinn
German, noun[ˈʁɪndɐˌvaːnzɪn]
Rinderwahnsinn is spelled R-I-N-D-E-R-W-A-H-N-S-I-N-N (14 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written German, the 261,124th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rinderwahnsinn is a German masculine noun meaning “bovine spongiform encephalopathy, mad cow disease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Prionenerkrankung bei Rindern, gehört zu den subakuten spongiformen Enzephalopathien, welche zu einer…”.
What does Rinderwahnsinn mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebovine spongiform encephalopathy, mad cow disease
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Prionenerkrankung bei Rindern, gehört zu den subakuten spongiformen Enzephalopathien, welche zu einer schwammartigen Degeneration des Gehirns führen. Der Verlauf ist langsam und immer tödlich.
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 Rinderwahnsinn
- Rinderwahnsinnes genitive
- Rinderwahnsinns genitive
- Rinderwahnsinne dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Rinderwahnsinn?
- [ˈʁɪndɐˌvaːnzɪn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Rinderwahnsinn in German?
Rinderwahnsinn appears about once in every 21 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).