Handkäse
German, noun/ˈhantˌkɛːzə/
Handkäse is spelled H-A-N-D-K-Ä-S-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written German, the 330,389th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Handkäse is a German masculine noun meaning “hand cheese (literal meaning)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “flacher und runder, von Hand geformter Sauermilchkäse aus Süd- und Rheinhessen”.
What does Handkäse mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehand cheese (literal meaning)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. flacher und runder, von Hand geformter Sauermilchkäse aus Süd- und Rheinhessen
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 Handkäse
- Handkäses genitive
- Handkäsen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Handkäse?
- /ˈhantˌkɛːzə/
- /ˈhantˌkeːzə/
- [ˈhantˌkɛːzə]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Handkäse in German?
Handkäse appears about once in every 32 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).