Wahn
German, noun
Wahn is spelled W-A-H-N (4 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written German, the 15,332nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wahn is a German masculine noun meaning “obsession, craze” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, wähn is a different word: “singular imperative of wähnen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “falsche Vorstellung”.
What does Wahn mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineobsession, craze
- 2
masculinedelusion, false interpretation of reality (perception not founded in reality)
verb
- 1
singular imperative of wähnen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of wähnen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. falsche Vorstellung 2. eine falsche Interpretation der Realität, die unkorrigierbar ist und an der der Betroffene festhält
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 Wahn
- Wahnes genitive
- Wahns genitive
- Wahne plural
- Wahnen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Wahn
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Wahn in German?
Wahn appears 3.7 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).