hellhäutig
German, adjective/ˈhɛlˌhɔɪ̯tɪç/
hellhäutig is spelled H-E-L-L-H-Ä-U-T-I-G (10 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 170,338th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hellhäutig is a German adjective meaning “light-skinned” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “helle Hautfarbe habend”.
What does hellhäutig mean in English?
adjective
- 1
light-skinned
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. helle Hautfarbe habend
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 hellhäutig
- hellhäutiger masculine nominative singular
- hellhäutige feminine nominative singular
- hellhäutiges neuter nominative singular
- hellhäutigen genitive masculine singular
- hellhäutigem dative masculine singular
- der hellhäutige definite includes-article masculine
- die hellhäutige definite feminine includes-article
- das hellhäutige definite includes-article neuter
- die hellhäutigen definite includes-article nominative
- des hellhäutigen definite genitive includes-article
- der hellhäutigen definite feminine genitive
- dem hellhäutigen dative definite includes-article
- den hellhäutigen dative definite includes-article
- am hellhäutigsten superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hellhäutig?
- /ˈhɛlˌhɔɪ̯tɪç/
- /ˈhɛlˌhɔɪ̯tɪk/
- [ˈhɛlˌhɔɪ̯tɪç]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hellhäutig
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hellhäutig in German?
hellhäutig appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).