diff --git a/src/app/components/shared/_dialogs/topic-cloud-administration/topic-cloud-administration.component.html b/src/app/components/shared/_dialogs/topic-cloud-administration/topic-cloud-administration.component.html
index 1ec035038d65be930905ed4c900b084b39da5f74..2486376ddd4b319ab42b533b6fa64027ca6fe453 100644
--- a/src/app/components/shared/_dialogs/topic-cloud-administration/topic-cloud-administration.component.html
+++ b/src/app/components/shared/_dialogs/topic-cloud-administration/topic-cloud-administration.component.html
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
       <mat-slide-toggle (change)="refreshAllLists()" [(ngModel)]="profanityFilter">
         {{'topic-cloud-dialog.profanity' | translate}}
       </mat-slide-toggle>
-      <mat-slide-toggle [(ngModel)]="hideIrrelevant">
-        {{'topic-cloud-dialog.hide-irrelevant' | translate}}
+      <mat-slide-toggle [(ngModel)]="hideBlacklist">
+        {{'topic-cloud-dialog.hide-blacklist' | translate}}
       </mat-slide-toggle>
 
       <mat-accordion class="new-Badword" multi>
@@ -47,24 +47,24 @@
         </mat-expansion-panel>
 
         <mat-expansion-panel class="color-background"
-          (opened)="enterIrrelevantWord = true; focusInput('irrelevant-word-input')"
-          (closed)="enterIrrelevantWord = false">
+          (opened)="enterBlacklistWord = true; focusInput('blacklist-word-input')"
+          (closed)="enterBlacklistWord = false">
           <mat-expansion-panel-header class="color-background">
             <mat-panel-description>
-              {{'topic-cloud-dialog.edit-irrelevant-list' | translate}}
+              {{'topic-cloud-dialog.edit-blacklist-list' | translate}}
             </mat-panel-description>
           </mat-expansion-panel-header>
 
           <mat-form-field>
             <mat-label>{{'topic-cloud-dialog.enter-word' | translate}}</mat-label>
-            <input matInput id="irrelevant-word-input" [(ngModel)]="newIrrelevantWord">
+            <input matInput id="blacklist-word-input" [(ngModel)]="newBlacklistWord">
           </mat-form-field>
 
-          <button mat-stroked-button color="primary" class="margin-left" (click)="addIrrelevantWord()">
+          <button mat-stroked-button color="primary" class="margin-left" (click)="addBlacklistWord()">
             {{'topic-cloud-dialog.add-word' | translate}}
           </button>
 
-          <mat-list role="list" *ngIf="showIrrelevantWordList">
+          <mat-list role="list" *ngIf="showBlacklistWordList">
             <mat-list-item class="color-on-surface" *ngFor="let word of getBadWordList()" role="listitem">{{word}}
               <button style="margin-left: auto" mat-icon-button class="red">
                 <mat-icon mat-list-icon style="margin-bottom: 6px;">delete</mat-icon>
@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@
           </mat-list>
 
           <div>
-            <button mat-raised-button *ngIf="getIrrelevantWordList().length > 0" class="primaryBackground"
-              (click)="showIrrelevantWordList=!showIrrelevantWordList">
-              {{showIrrelevantWordList ? "Hide irrelevantword list" : "Show irrelevantword list"}}
+            <button mat-raised-button *ngIf="getBlacklistWordList().length > 0" class="primaryBackground"
+              (click)="showBlacklistWordList=!showBlacklistWordList">
+              {{showBlacklistWordList ? "Hide blacklistword list" : "Show blacklistword list"}}
             </button>
           </div>
 
diff --git a/src/app/components/shared/_dialogs/topic-cloud-administration/topic-cloud-administration.component.ts b/src/app/components/shared/_dialogs/topic-cloud-administration/topic-cloud-administration.component.ts
index 94adf89a7f01ad72c4b581c7670d0148ef59ceb9..4c6cbb19d84c87e763e325e74700ac475ccf84f9 100644
--- a/src/app/components/shared/_dialogs/topic-cloud-administration/topic-cloud-administration.component.ts
+++ b/src/app/components/shared/_dialogs/topic-cloud-administration/topic-cloud-administration.component.ts
@@ -18,21 +18,21 @@ export class TopicCloudAdministrationComponent implements OnInit {
   public panelOpenState = false;
   public considerVotes: boolean; // should be sent back to tagCloud component
   public profanityFilter = true; // should be sent back to tagCloud component
-  public hideIrrelevant: boolean; // should be sent back to tagCloud component
+  public hideBlacklist: boolean; // should be sent back to tagCloud component
   newKeyword = undefined;
   edit = false;
   isCreatorOrMod: boolean;
   enterBadword = false;
-  enterIrrelevantWord = false;
+  enterBlacklistWord = false;
   newBadWord: string = undefined;
-  newIrrelevantWord: string = undefined;
+  newBlacklistWord: string = undefined;
 
   sortMode = 'alphabetic';
   searchedKeyword = undefined;
   searchMode = false;
   filteredKeywords: Keyword[] = [];
   showBadWordList = false;
-  showIrrelevantWordList = false;
+  showBlacklistWordList = false;
 
   keywords: Keyword[] = [
     {
@@ -123,8 +123,8 @@ export class TopicCloudAdministrationComponent implements OnInit {
     return this.topicCloudAdminService.getBadWordList();
   }
 
-  getIrrelevantWordList() {
-    return this.topicCloudAdminService.getIrrelevantWordList();
+  getBlacklistWordList() {
+    return this.topicCloudAdminService.getBlacklistWordList();
   }
 
   sortQuestions(sortMode?: string) {
@@ -267,9 +267,9 @@ export class TopicCloudAdministrationComponent implements OnInit {
     }
   }
 
-  addIrrelevantWord() {
-    this.topicCloudAdminService.addToIrrelevantwordList(this.newIrrelevantWord);
-    this.newIrrelevantWord = undefined;
+  addBlacklistWord() {
+    this.topicCloudAdminService.addToBlacklistWordList(this.newBlacklistWord);
+    this.newBlacklistWord = undefined;
     if (this.searchMode){
       this.searchKeyword();
     }
diff --git a/src/app/services/util/topic-cloud-admin.service.ts b/src/app/services/util/topic-cloud-admin.service.ts
index b85bd9a158eccc5523e907b2d7dd76bae3125107..616fc7507b0b21f2e1ceb3d3998974535a691e33 100644
--- a/src/app/services/util/topic-cloud-admin.service.ts
+++ b/src/app/services/util/topic-cloud-admin.service.ts
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ import * as BadWords from 'naughty-words';
 export class TopicCloudAdminService {
   private badWords = [];
   private profanityWords = [];
-  private irrelevantWords = []; // should be stored in backend
-  private blacklistKey = 'custom-Profanity-List';
+  private blacklist = []; // should be stored in backend
+  private profanityKey = 'custom-Profanity-List';
 
   constructor() {
     this.badWords = BadWords;
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export class TopicCloudAdminService {
   }
 
   getBadWordList(): string[] {
-    const list = localStorage.getItem(this.blacklistKey);
+    const list = localStorage.getItem(this.profanityKey);
     return list ? list.split(',') : [];
   }
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ export class TopicCloudAdminService {
         return;
       }
       newList.push(word);
-      localStorage.setItem(this.blacklistKey, newList.toString());
+      localStorage.setItem(this.profanityKey, newList.toString());
     }
   }
 
@@ -60,25 +60,25 @@ export class TopicCloudAdminService {
         list.splice(list.indexOf(word, 0), 1);
       }
     });
-    localStorage.setItem(this.blacklistKey, list.toString());
+    localStorage.setItem(this.profanityKey, list.toString());
   }
 
   removeBadwordList(){
-    localStorage.removeItem(this.blacklistKey);
+    localStorage.removeItem(this.profanityKey);
   }
 
-  getIrrelevantWordList(): string[] {
-    return this.irrelevantWords;
+  getBlacklistWordList(): string[] {
+    return this.blacklist;
   }
 
-  addToIrrelevantwordList(word: string) {
+  addToBlacklistWordList(word: string) {
     if (word !== undefined) {
-      this.irrelevantWords.push(word);
+      this.blacklist.push(word);
     }
   }
 
-  removeFromIrrelevantWordList(irrelevantWord: string) {
-    this.irrelevantWords.splice(this.irrelevantWords.indexOf(irrelevantWord), 1);
+  removeWordFromBlacklist(word: string) {
+    this.blacklist.splice(this.blacklist.indexOf(word), 1);
   }
 
 
diff --git a/src/assets/i18n/participant/de.json b/src/assets/i18n/participant/de.json
index e6ebe2e09a8b550aae02c9b8e5d96136e3c9d2c9..6ed6e6f341b102d2b1141a96293ede6d4d20fc17 100644
--- a/src/assets/i18n/participant/de.json
+++ b/src/assets/i18n/participant/de.json
@@ -237,13 +237,13 @@
     "no-keywords-note": "Es gibt keine Themen",
     "consider-votes": "Votes berücksichtigen",
     "profanity": "Schimpfwörter zensieren",
-    "hide-irrelevant": "Irrelevante Stichworte verbergen",
+    "hide-blacklist": "Blackliste Stichworte verbergen",
     "sort-alpha": "Alphabetisch",
     "sort-count": "Fragenanzahl",
     "sort-vote": "Votes",
     "keyword-search": "Stichwort suchen",
     "edit-profanity-list": "Zensurliste bearbeiten",
-    "edit-irrelevant-list": "Irrelevantliste bearbeiten",
+    "edit-blacklist-list": "Blacklistliste bearbeiten",
     "add-word": "Wort hinzufügen",
     "enter-word": "Wort eingeben"
   },
diff --git a/src/assets/i18n/participant/en.json b/src/assets/i18n/participant/en.json
index 17fe905e57a4c48a270258bc57a284c248e5e977..b323ef8c160983921a7021371af8056d889c5c4a 100644
--- a/src/assets/i18n/participant/en.json
+++ b/src/assets/i18n/participant/en.json
@@ -242,13 +242,13 @@
     "no-keywords-note": "There are no topics!",
     "consider-votes": "Consider Votes",
     "profanity": "Censor profanity",
-    "hide-irrelevant": "Hide irrelevant keywords",
+    "hide-blacklist": "Hide blacklist keywords",
     "sort-alpha": "Alphabetically",
     "sort-count": "Questions count",
     "sort-vote": "Votes",
     "keyword-search": "Search keyword",
     "edit-profanity-list": "Edit profanity list",
-    "edit-irrelevant-list": "Edit irrelevant list",
+    "edit-blacklist-list": "Edit blacklist list",
     "add-word": "Add Word",
     "enter-word": "Enter word"
   },