Basketball
German, noun/ˈbaːskətˌbal/
Basketball is spelled B-A-S-K-E-T-B-A-L-L (10 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written German, the 5,262nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Basketball is a German masculine noun meaning “basketball” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Mannschaftssport, bei dem ein Ball in einen offenen Korb von oben durchgeworfen werden soll”.
What does Basketball mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebasketball
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mannschaftssport, bei dem ein Ball in einen offenen Korb von oben durchgeworfen werden soll 2. der für [1] verwendete Ball
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 Basketball
- Basketballes genitive
- Basketballs genitive
- Basketbälle plural
- Basketballe dative singular
- Basketbällen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Basketball?
- /ˈbaːskətˌbal/
- [ˈbaːskətˌbal]
- [ˈbaskətˌbal]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Basketball
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Basketball in German?
Basketball appears 14 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).