Phraseologismus
German, noun/fʁazeoloˈɡɪsmʊs/
Phraseologismus is spelled P-H-R-A-S-E-O-L-O-G-I-S-M-U-S (15 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written German, the 495,385th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Phraseologismus is a German masculine noun meaning “phraseology (a set or fixed expression)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “feste Verbindung von zwei oder mehr Wörtern, deren Gesamtbedeutung sich nicht mehr aus den Bedeutungen der…”.
What does Phraseologismus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinephraseology (a set or fixed expression)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. feste Verbindung von zwei oder mehr Wörtern, deren Gesamtbedeutung sich nicht mehr aus den Bedeutungen der einzelnen Komponenten ergibt, sondern eine Übertragung erfahren hat
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 Phraseologismus
- Phraseologismen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Phraseologismus?
- /fʁazeoloˈɡɪsmʊs/
- [fʁazeoloˈɡɪsmʊs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Phraseologismus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Phraseologismus in German?
Phraseologismus appears about once in every 65 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).