Wackes
German, noun/ˈva.kəs/
Wackes is a German masculine noun meaning “rascal, loafer, good-for-nothing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Wackes mean in English?
noun
- 1
derogatorymasculinerascal, loafer, good-for-nothing.
- 2
derogatorymasculinea Romance-speaker.
- 3
derogatorymasculineoffensivea native of Alsace-Lorraine, especially one who speaks a Romance language and/or a nonstandard dialect of German.
Und wenn Sie dabei so einen Wackes über den Haufen stechen, so schadet es nichts. Sie bekommen von mir dann noch zehn Mark Belohnung.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Wackes
- Wackeses genitive
- Wackese plural
- Wackesen dative definite plural
- Waggis alternative
- Wagges alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Wackes?
- /ˈva.kəs/
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Wackes in German?
Wackes appears about once in every 52 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).