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behilflich

German, adjective/bəˈhɪlflɪç/

behilflich is spelled B-E-H-I-L-F-L-I-C-H (10 letters) and appears 3.3 times per million words in written German, the 16,674th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Behilflich is a German adjective meaning “of service, assistant, helpful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Hilfe leistend”.

What does behilflich mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    of service, assistant, helpful

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Hilfe leistend

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 behilflich

  • behilflicher masculine nominative singular
  • am behilflichsten superlative
  • behilfliche feminine nominative singular
  • behilfliches neuter nominative singular
  • behilflichen genitive masculine singular
  • behilflichem dative masculine singular
  • der behilfliche definite includes-article masculine
  • die behilfliche definite feminine includes-article
  • das behilfliche definite includes-article neuter
  • die behilflichen definite includes-article nominative
  • des behilflichen definite genitive includes-article
  • der behilflichen definite feminine genitive
  • dem behilflichen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce behilflich?

  • /bəˈhɪlflɪç/
  • [bəˈhɪlflɪç]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is behilflich in German?

behilflich appears 3.3 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).

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