Kapellan
German, noun/kapɛˈlaːn/
Kapellan is spelled K-A-P-E-L-L-A-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written German, the 470,264th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kapellan is a German masculine noun meaning “dated form of Kaplan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Geistlicher, der für eine spezielle Einrichtung (zum Beispiel eine Kapelle) zuständig ist, oder der nach der…”.
What does Kapellan mean in English?
noun
- 1
datedmasculinedated form of Kaplan
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Geistlicher, der für eine spezielle Einrichtung (zum Beispiel eine Kapelle) zuständig ist, oder der nach der Priesterweihe zunächst einem Pfarrer zugeordnet ist
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 Kapellan
- Kapellans genitive
- Kapelläne plural
- Kapellane plural
- Kapellänen dative definite plural
- Kapellanen dative definite plural
- Kappellan obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Kapellan?
- /kapɛˈlaːn/
- [ˌka.pɛˈlaːn]
- [-pe-]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Kapellan in German?
Kapellan appears about once in every 59 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).