Illegaler
German, noun
Illegaler is spelled I-L-L-E-G-A-L-E-R (9 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written German, the 17,848th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Illegaler is a German masculine noun meaning “illegal immigrant, illegal alien” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, illegaler is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person mit illegalem, behördlich nicht genehmigtem Aufenthaltsstatus”.
What does Illegaler mean in English?
noun
- 1
informalmasculineillegal immigrant, illegal alien
adjective
- 1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 3
strong genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person mit illegalem, behördlich nicht genehmigtem Aufenthaltsstatus
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 Illegaler
- der Illegale definite nominative
- Illegalen genitive
- Illegale plural
- die Illegalen definite plural
- Illegalem dative singular strong
- des Illegalen genitive singular
- der Illegalen genitive plural
- dem Illegalen dative singular
- den Illegalen dative plural
- ein Illegaler nominative singular
- keine Illegalen nominative plural
- eines Illegalen genitive singular
- keiner Illegalen genitive plural
- einem Illegalen dative singular
- keinen Illegalen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Illegaler in German?
Illegaler appears 3.0 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).