English Words of German Origin - Statistics

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An clone or body double (noun) Doppelgänger
83%
A place of cultivating the minds of young children (noun) Kindergarten
83%
Stereotype of American cuisine, named for a port city in North Germany (noun) Hamburger
79%
Long, skinny dogs originally bred to hunt badgers (noun) Dachshund/Weiner
75%
A cultural fad, or quite literally "the spirit of the time" (noun) Zeitgeist
73%
American Football tactic or London bombing campaign (noun) Blitz
72%
A ballroom dance conducted in 3 (noun) Waltz
72%
Now extinct human relatives named for a German valley (noun) Neanderthal
71%
Paranormal prankster or the title of a Spielberg movie (noun) Poltergeist
67%
To find happiness in another's pain (noun) Schadenfreude
59%
Dense, dark bread that does not contain the round gourd with a similar name (noun) Pumpernickel
43%
Tacky or gaudy decoration that you definitely only enjoy ironically (noun) Kitsch
28%
In psychology, a form of existential dread. In popular usage, the driving force behind Hot Topic (noun) Angst
21%
To be an imitation or replacement, especially a cheap or low-quality one (adjective) Ersatz
15%
The metallic namesake of a Chevy compact now only sold in Brazil, from German for "goblin" (noun) Cobalt
6%
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