Avatar
German, noun[avaˈtaːɐ̯]
Avatar is spelled A-V-A-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,546th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avatar is a German masculine noun meaning “avatar (The earthly incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “virtueller Stellvertreter eines realen Benutzers im Cyberspace”.
What does Avatar mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineavatar (The earthly incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. virtueller Stellvertreter eines realen Benutzers im Cyberspace 2. virtuelle, grafische Repräsentation einer Kunstfigur in einem eigenen Universum
noun: 1. die Verkörperungen eines Gottes auf der Erde
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 Avatar
- Avatars genitive
- Avatare plural
- Avataren dative definite plural
- Ava abbreviation
- Avatara variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Avatar?
- [avaˈtaːɐ̯]
- [ˈɛvətaːɐ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Avatar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Avatar in German?
Avatar appears 2.5 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).