Kartoffelkäfer
German, noun[kaʁˈtɔfəlˌkɛːfɐ]
Kartoffelkäfer is spelled K-A-R-T-O-F-F-E-L-K-Ä-F-E-R (14 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 168,023rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kartoffelkäfer is a German masculine noun meaning “Colorado potato beetle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “gelb-schwarz gestreifter Käfer aus der Familie der Blattkäfer, der ursprünglich aus Amerika stammt und sich…”.
What does Kartoffelkäfer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineColorado potato beetle
- 2
masculineslangfan of the German football club Alemannia Aachen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. gelb-schwarz gestreifter Käfer aus der Familie der Blattkäfer, der ursprünglich aus Amerika stammt und sich von Teilen der Kartoffelpflanze ernährt
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 Kartoffelkäfer
- Kartoffelkäfers genitive
- Kartoffelkäfern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Kartoffelkäfer?
- [kaʁˈtɔfəlˌkɛːfɐ]
- [kaʁˈtɔfl̩ˌkɛːfɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Kartoffelkäfer in German?
Kartoffelkäfer appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).