Lehnwort
German, noun/ˈleːnˌvɔʁt/
Lehnwort is spelled L-E-H-N-W-O-R-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 80,178th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lehnwort is a German neuter noun meaning “loanword, foreign word, borrowing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Wort, das aus einer anderen Sprache übernommen wurde und an die aufnehmende Sprache lautlich, orthographisch…”.
What does Lehnwort mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuterloanword, foreign word, borrowing
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Wort, das aus einer anderen Sprache übernommen wurde und an die aufnehmende Sprache lautlich, orthographisch und/oder grammatisch mehr oder weniger angepasst wurde
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 Lehnwort
- Lehnwortes genitive
- Lehnworts genitive
- Lehnwörter plural
- Lehnworte dative singular
- Lehnwörtern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Lehnwort?
- /ˈleːnˌvɔʁt/
- [ˈleːnˌvɔʁt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Lehnwort
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Lehnwort in German?
Lehnwort appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).