Glottisschlag
German, noun/ˈɡlɔtɪsˌʃlaːk/
Glottisschlag is spelled G-L-O-T-T-I-S-S-C-H-L-A-G (13 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written German, the 396,524th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glottisschlag is a German masculine noun meaning “glottal stop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “stimmloser, glottaler Verschlusslaut, der im Deutschen vor Vokalen gebildet wird”.
What does Glottisschlag mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineglottal stop
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. stimmloser, glottaler Verschlusslaut, der im Deutschen vor Vokalen gebildet wird
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 Glottisschlag
- Glottisschlages genitive
- Glottisschlags genitive
- Glottisschläge plural
- Glottisschlage dative singular
- Glottisschlägen dative definite plural
- ʔ abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Glottisschlag?
- /ˈɡlɔtɪsˌʃlaːk/
- [ˈɡlɔtɪsˌʃlaːk]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Glottisschlag in German?
Glottisschlag appears about once in every 44 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).