Gouverneur
German, noun[ɡuvɛʁˈnøːɐ̯]
Gouverneur is spelled G-O-U-V-E-R-N-E-U-R (10 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written German, the 7,885th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gouverneur is a German masculine noun meaning “governor (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Statthalter, oberster Beamter eines Gouvernements, einer Kolonie”.
What does Gouverneur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegovernor (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. Statthalter, oberster Beamter eines Gouvernements, einer Kolonie
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 Gouverneur
- Gouverneurs genitive
- Gouverneure plural
- Gouverneurin feminine
- Gouverneuren dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Gouverneur?
- [ɡuvɛʁˈnøːɐ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Gouverneur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Gouverneur in German?
Gouverneur appears 8.7 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).