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horizontal

German, adjective/hoʁit͡sɔnˈtaːl/

horizontal is spelled H-O-R-I-Z-O-N-T-A-L (10 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written German, the 18,511th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Horizontal is a German adjective meaning “horizontal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “waagerecht, parallel zum Horizont”.

What does horizontal mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    horizontal

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. waagerecht, parallel zum Horizont

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 horizontal

  • horizontaler masculine nominative singular
  • horizontale feminine nominative singular
  • horizontales neuter nominative singular
  • horizontalen genitive masculine singular
  • horizontalem dative masculine singular
  • der horizontale definite includes-article masculine
  • die horizontale definite feminine includes-article
  • das horizontale definite includes-article neuter
  • die horizontalen definite includes-article nominative
  • des horizontalen definite genitive includes-article
  • der horizontalen definite feminine genitive
  • dem horizontalen dative definite includes-article
  • den horizontalen dative definite includes-article
  • h. abbreviation
  • hor. abbreviation

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

How do you pronounce horizontal?

  • /hoʁit͡sɔnˈtaːl/
  • [hoʁit͡sɔnˈtaːl]

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

English words that translate to horizontal

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

How common is horizontal in German?

horizontal appears 2.9 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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