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illiberal

German, adjective/ˈɪlibeʁaːl/

illiberal is spelled I-L-L-I-B-E-R-A-L (9 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written German, the 412,295th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Illiberal is a German adjective meaning “illiberal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “keine tolerante und vorurteilsfreie Weltanschauung besitzend/vertretend”.

What does illiberal mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    illiberal

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. keine tolerante und vorurteilsfreie Weltanschauung besitzend/vertretend

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 illiberal

  • illiberaler masculine nominative singular
  • am illiberalsten superlative
  • illiberale feminine nominative singular
  • illiberales neuter nominative singular
  • illiberalen genitive masculine singular
  • illiberalem dative masculine singular
  • der illiberale definite includes-article masculine
  • die illiberale definite feminine includes-article
  • das illiberale definite includes-article neuter
  • die illiberalen definite includes-article nominative
  • des illiberalen definite genitive includes-article
  • der illiberalen definite feminine genitive
  • dem illiberalen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce illiberal?

  • /ˈɪlibeʁaːl/
  • /ɪlibeˈʁaːl/
  • [ˈɪlibeʁaːl]

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

How common is illiberal in German?

illiberal appears about once in every 47 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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