wahnhaft
German, adjective[ˈvaːnhaft]
wahnhaft is spelled W-A-H-N-H-A-F-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 177,389th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wahnhaft is a German adjective meaning “delusional” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “von einer fixen Idee/irren Vorstellung (= einem Wahn), welche nichts mit der Realität, den Fakten oder…”.
What does wahnhaft mean in English?
adjective
- 1
delusional
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. von einer fixen Idee/irren Vorstellung (= einem Wahn), welche nichts mit der Realität, den Fakten oder rationalen Argumenten zu tun hat, geleitet
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 wahnhaft
- wahnhafter masculine nominative singular
- am wahnhaftesten superlative
- wahnhafte feminine nominative singular
- wahnhaftes neuter nominative singular
- wahnhaften genitive masculine singular
- wahnhaftem dative masculine singular
- der wahnhafte definite includes-article masculine
- die wahnhafte definite feminine includes-article
- das wahnhafte definite includes-article neuter
- die wahnhaften definite includes-article nominative
- des wahnhaften definite genitive includes-article
- der wahnhaften definite feminine genitive
- dem wahnhaften dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce wahnhaft?
- [ˈvaːnhaft]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to wahnhaft
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is wahnhaft in German?
wahnhaft appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).