Chef
German, noun[ʃɛf]
Chef is spelled C-H-E-F (4 letters) and appears 83 times per million words in written German, the 1,041st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chef is a German masculine noun meaning “boss, chief” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “(männliche^☆) Person mit Weisungsbefugnis über nachgeordnetes Personal, Inhaber, Vorgesetzter”.
What does Chef mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineboss, chief
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (männliche^☆) Person mit Weisungsbefugnis über nachgeordnetes Personal, Inhaber, Vorgesetzter 2. allgemein für Anführer oder Oberhaupt von Gruppen auch als Anrede
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 Chef
- Chefs genitive
- Chefin feminine
- Cheffin feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Chef?
- [ʃɛf]
- [ʃeːf]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Chef
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Chef in German?
Chef appears 83 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).