willens
German, adjective
willens is spelled W-I-L-L-E-N-S (7 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written German, the 15,068th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Willens is a German adjective meaning “willing, ready, prepared” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Willens is a different word: “genitive singular of Wille”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “gehoben, nur in „willens sein“”.
What does willens mean in English?
adjective
- 1
willing, ready, prepared
noun
- 1
genitive singular of Wille
- 2
genitive singular of Willen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. gehoben, nur in „willens sein“
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to willens
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is willens in German?
willens appears 3.8 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).