Ulk
German, noun/ʊlk/
Ulk is spelled U-L-K (3 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 115,169th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ulk is a German masculine noun meaning “joke” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “scherzhafter Unfug, lustiger Schabernack, harmloser Scherz”.
What does Ulk mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejoke
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. scherzhafter Unfug, lustiger Schabernack, harmloser Scherz
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 Ulk
- Ulkes genitive
- Ulks genitive
- Ulke plural
- Ulken dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Ulk?
- /ʊlk/
- [ʊlk]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Ulk
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Ulk in German?
Ulk appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).