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hilfreich

German, adjective/ˈhɪlfʁaɪ̯ç/

hilfreich is spelled H-I-L-F-R-E-I-C-H (9 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written German, the 4,345th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hilfreich is a German adjective meaning “useful, helpful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “helfend, unterstützend; Hilfe bietend”.

What does hilfreich mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    useful, helpful

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. helfend, unterstützend; Hilfe bietend

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 hilfreich

  • hilfreicher masculine nominative singular
  • am hilfreichsten superlative
  • hilfreiche feminine nominative singular
  • hilfreiches neuter nominative singular
  • hilfreichen genitive masculine singular
  • hilfreichem dative masculine singular
  • der hilfreiche definite includes-article masculine
  • die hilfreiche definite feminine includes-article
  • das hilfreiche definite includes-article neuter
  • die hilfreichen definite includes-article nominative
  • des hilfreichen definite genitive includes-article
  • der hilfreichen definite feminine genitive
  • dem hilfreichen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce hilfreich?

  • /ˈhɪlfʁaɪ̯ç/
  • [ˈhɪlfʁaɪ̯ç]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to hilfreich

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is hilfreich in German?

hilfreich appears 18 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).

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