Chefarzt
German, noun[ˈʃɛfˌʔaʁt͡st]
Chefarzt is spelled C-H-E-F-A-R-Z-T (8 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,546th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chefarzt is a German masculine noun meaning “chief physician (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “leitender Arzt in einem Krankenhaus oder einer anderen medizinischen Einrichtung”.
What does Chefarzt mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechief physician (male or of unspecified gender)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. leitender Arzt in einem Krankenhaus oder einer anderen medizinischen Einrichtung 2. Arzt bei einer Krankenkasse oder Behörde, der gesundheitliche Beeinträchtigungen der Versicherten beziehungsweise Mitarbeiter beurteilt und gegebenenfalls Maßnahmen bewilligt
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 Chefarzt
- Chefarztes genitive
- Chefärzte plural
- Chefärztin feminine
- Chefarzte dative singular
- Chefärzten dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Chefarzt?
- [ˈʃɛfˌʔaʁt͡st]
- [ˈʃɛfˌʔaːɐ̯t͡st]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Chefarzt in German?
Chefarzt appears 2.5 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).