ballsicher
German, adjective[ˈbalˌzɪçɐ]
ballsicher is spelled B-A-L-L-S-I-C-H-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written German, the 219,861st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ballsicher is a German adjective meaning “safe with the ball (is rarely tackled successfully)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich beim Spielen des Balles (etwa im Fußball) als versiert, geübt und fähig erweisend, so dass es nur selten…”.
What does ballsicher mean in English?
adjective
- 1
safe with the ball (is rarely tackled successfully)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. sich beim Spielen des Balles (etwa im Fußball) als versiert, geübt und fähig erweisend, so dass es nur selten zu Ballverlusten kommt
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 ballsicher
- ballsicherer masculine nominative singular
- ballsichrer comparative
- am ballsichersten superlative
- ballsichere feminine nominative singular
- ballsicheres neuter nominative singular
- ballsicheren genitive masculine singular
- ballsicherem dative masculine singular
- der ballsichere definite includes-article masculine
- die ballsichere definite feminine includes-article
- das ballsichere definite includes-article neuter
- die ballsicheren definite includes-article nominative
- des ballsicheren definite genitive includes-article
- der ballsicheren definite feminine genitive
- dem ballsicheren dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ballsicher?
- [ˈbalˌzɪçɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ballsicher in German?
ballsicher appears about once in every 15 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).