Catenaccio
German, noun[ˌkateˈnat͡ʃo]
Catenaccio is spelled C-A-T-E-N-A-C-C-I-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written German, the 434,655th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Catenaccio is a German masculine noun meaning “catenaccio” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “extrem defensive Taktik beim Fußball, bei der die Abwehr aus fünf Verteidigern besteht, um so Tore des…”.
What does Catenaccio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecatenaccio
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. extrem defensive Taktik beim Fußball, bei der die Abwehr aus fünf Verteidigern besteht, um so Tore des Gegners zu verhindern
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 Catenaccio
- Catenaccios genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Catenaccio?
- [ˌkateˈnat͡ʃo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Catenaccio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Catenaccio in German?
Catenaccio appears about once in every 51 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).