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nihilartikels

nihilartikels is the plural of nihilartikel.

Meaning of nihilartikel

Noun

nihilartikel (plural nihilartikels)

  1. A deliberately fictitious entry in an encyclopedia or academic work, generally identifiable as false, usually included to brand the intellectual property so copies can be identified.
    • The post never does find the word it’s looking for, but it eventually alights on a discussion of the Nihilartikel, a fake dictionary or encyclopedia entry created for playful or copyright-trap reasons.2005 May 1, Eve Maler, “The Language Log”, Pushing String, at www.xmlgrrl.com https://web.archive.org/web/20061111100505/http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2005/05/01/the-language-log/
    Synonyms:
    Mountweazel

Questions about nihilartikels

What is nihilartikels the plural of?
Nihilartikels is the plural of nihilartikel.

Words near nihilartikels in the dictionary

  1. nihil dicit
  2. nihil dicits
  3. nihil obstat
  4. nihil obstats
  5. nihilartikel
  6. nihilartikels
  7. nihilate
  8. nihilated
  9. nihilates
  10. nihilating
  11. nihilation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nihilartikels (page history and authors); nihilartikel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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