Landeskriminalamt
German, noun/ˈlandəskʁimiˌnaːlʔamt/
Landeskriminalamt is spelled L-A-N-D-E-S-K-R-I-M-I-N-A-L-A-M-T (17 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 52,012th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Landeskriminalamt is a German neuter noun meaning “state office of criminal investigations” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “obere Landesbehörde, die dem Innenministerium unterstellt ist”.
What does Landeskriminalamt mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuterstate office of criminal investigations
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. obere Landesbehörde, die dem Innenministerium unterstellt 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 Landeskriminalamt
- Landeskriminalamtes genitive
- Landeskriminalamts genitive
- Landeskriminalämter plural
- Landeskriminalamte dative singular
- Landeskriminalämtern dative definite plural
- LKA alternative initialism
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Landeskriminalamt?
- /ˈlandəskʁimiˌnaːlʔamt/
- [ˈlandəskʁimiˌnaːlʔamt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Landeskriminalamt in German?
Landeskriminalamt appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).