Zank
German, noun
Zank is spelled Z-A-N-K (4 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 80,178th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zank is a German masculine noun meaning “row, argument, quarrel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, zank is a different word: “singular imperative of zanken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Streit, Gespräche im Zwist”.
What does Zank mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerow, argument, quarrel
verb
- 1
singular imperative of zanken
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of zanken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Streit, Gespräche im Zwist
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 Zank
- Zankes genitive
- Zanks genitive
- Zanke dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Zank
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Zank in German?
Zank appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).