Idealbild
German, noun/ideˈaːlˌbɪlt/
Idealbild is spelled I-D-E-A-L-B-I-L-D (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 67,080th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Idealbild is a German neuter noun meaning “ideal, ideal image” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Bild von einer vollkommenen, formvollendeten Sache, eines vollkommenen, formvollendeten Dinges, Tieres…”.
What does Idealbild mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuterideal, ideal image
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ein Bild von einer vollkommenen, formvollendeten Sache, eines vollkommenen, formvollendeten Dinges, Tieres und/oder abstrakten Erscheinungen 2. ein Konzept einer Person darüber, wie sie sein möchte und wie sich selbst vorstellt
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 Idealbild
- Idealbildes genitive
- Idealbilds genitive
- Idealbilder plural
- Idealbilde dative singular
- Idealbildern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Idealbild?
- /ideˈaːlˌbɪlt/
- [ideˈaːlˌbɪlt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Idealbild in German?
Idealbild appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).