wild
German, adjective
wild is spelled W-I-L-D (4 letters) and appears 32 times per million words in written German, the 2,594th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wild is a German adjective meaning “wild (of animals, etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wild is a different word: “game (huntable animals)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht gezähmt; frei in der Natur vorkommend; nicht veredelt”.
What does wild mean in English?
adjective
- 1
wild (of animals, etc.)
- 2
informalwild, unrestrained, raucous (of behavior, parties, etc.)
- 3
informalcrazy, hard to believe (of stories, situations, etc.)
- 4
obsoletestrange
noun
- 1
neutergame (huntable animals)
- 2
neutergame meat
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gesamtheit freilebender, jagdbarer Tiere 2. zubereitetes oder zur Zubereitung vorgesehenes Fleisch vom Wild [1]
adjective: 1. nicht gezähmt; frei in der Natur vorkommend; nicht veredelt 2. gegen das Gesetz, gegen die Ordnung verstoßend; ohne Kontrolle geschehend 3. mit wenig Selbstbeherrschung, ohne Selbstkontrolle 4. voller Wut, Erregung oder Anspannung
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 wild
- wilder masculine nominative singular
- am wildesten superlative
- wilde feminine nominative singular
- wildes neuter nominative singular
- wilden genitive masculine singular
- wildem dative masculine singular
- der wilde definite includes-article masculine
- die wilde definite feminine includes-article
- das wilde definite includes-article neuter
- die wilden definite includes-article nominative
- des wilden definite genitive includes-article
- der wilden definite feminine genitive
- dem wilden dative definite includes-article
- Wildes genitive singular
- Wilds genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to wild
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is wild in German?
wild appears 32 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).