Troll
German, noun
Troll is spelled T-R-O-L-L (5 letters) and appears 4.9 times per million words in written German, the 12,471st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Troll is a German masculine noun meaning “troll” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, troll is a different word: “singular imperative of trollen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “meist schadenbringendes Geisterwesen in Riesen- oder Zwergengestalt”.
What does Troll mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetroll
- 2
colloquialmasculinean ugly or boorish person
- 3
masculinetroll
verb
- 1
singular imperative of trollen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. meist schadenbringendes Geisterwesen in Riesen- oder Zwergengestalt 2. Teilnehmer an Webforen, Newsgroups oder Ähnlichem, der mit seinen Beiträgen in der Regel provozieren will und nicht an einer ernsthaften, der Netiquette gerecht werdenden Diskussion interessiert ist
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 Troll
- Trolles genitive
- Trolls genitive
- Trolle plural
- Trollin feminine
- Trollen dative definite plural
- Tröllchen diminutive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Troll
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Troll in German?
Troll appears 4.9 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).