Wal
German, noun/vaːl/
Wal is spelled W-A-L (3 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written German, the 18,511th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wal is a German masculine noun meaning “whale” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “oft sehr großes, im Wasser lebendes Säugetier (Ordnung Cetacea)”.
What does Wal mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewhale
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. oft sehr großes, im Wasser lebendes Säugetier (Ordnung Cetacea) 2. Person, die für eine Sache (meist Onlinespiele, Glücksspiel oder ähnliches) extreme Summen an Geld ausgibt, teilweise bis zum finanziellen Ruin
abbreviation: 1. walisisch
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 Wal
- Wales genitive
- Wals genitive
- Wale plural
- Walen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Wal?
- /vaːl/
- [vaːl]
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Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Wal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Wal in German?
Wal appears 2.9 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).