Kandidat
German, noun/kandiˈdaːt/
Kandidat is spelled K-A-N-D-I-D-A-T (8 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written German, the 5,360th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kandidat is a German masculine noun meaning “candidate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person (oder auch Sache oder Umstand/Ort), die für etwas zur Auswahl steht”.
What does Kandidat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecandidate
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person (oder auch Sache oder Umstand/Ort), die für etwas zur Auswahl steht
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 Kandidat
- Kandidaten genitive
- Kandidatin feminine
- Candidat alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Kandidat?
- /kandiˈdaːt/
- [kandiˈdaːt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Kandidat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Kandidat in German?
Kandidat appears 14 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).