Attentat
German, noun/ˈatənˌtaːt/
Attentat is spelled A-T-T-E-N-T-A-T (8 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written German, the 10,826th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Attentat is a German neuter noun meaning “attack; assassination (killing, or attempted killing, for ideological reasons)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Mord oder versuchter Mord an einem öffentlich bekannten, meist politisch einflussreichen Menschen…”.
What does Attentat mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuterattack; assassination (killing, or attempted killing, for ideological reasons)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mord oder versuchter Mord an einem öffentlich bekannten, meist politisch einflussreichen Menschen beziehungsweise an einer bestimmten Menschengruppe
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 Attentat
- Attentates genitive
- Attentats genitive
- Attentate plural
- Attentaten dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Attentat?
- /ˈatənˌtaːt/
- /ˌatənˈtaːt/
- [ˈatn̩ˌtaːt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Attentat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Attentat in German?
Attentat appears 5.9 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).