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ideell

German, adjective/ideˈɛl/

ideell is spelled I-D-E-E-L-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 76,606th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ideell is a German adjective meaning “ideal (conceptual)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “nur in Gedanken existierend; nur gedanklich”.

What does ideell mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    ideal (conceptual)

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. nur in Gedanken existierend; nur gedanklich

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 ideell

  • ideeller masculine nominative singular
  • am ideellsten superlative
  • ideelle feminine nominative singular
  • ideelles neuter nominative singular
  • ideellen genitive masculine singular
  • ideellem dative masculine singular
  • der ideelle definite includes-article masculine
  • die ideelle definite feminine includes-article
  • das ideelle definite includes-article neuter
  • die ideellen definite includes-article nominative
  • des ideellen definite genitive includes-article
  • der ideellen definite feminine genitive
  • dem ideellen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce ideell?

  • /ideˈɛl/
  • [ideˈɛl]

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

How common is ideell in German?

ideell appears about once in every 3 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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