Prosodie
German, noun/pʁozoˈdiː/
Prosodie is spelled P-R-O-S-O-D-I-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 177,389th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prosodie is a German feminine noun meaning “prosody” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “der Teilbereich der Phonologie, der sich mit den sprachlichen Merkmalen beschäftigt, die über einfache…”.
What does Prosodie mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineprosody
- 2
feminineprosody (study of rhythm and other attributes in speech)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. der Teilbereich der Phonologie, der sich mit den sprachlichen Merkmalen beschäftigt, die über einfache Phoneme hinausgehen 2. die Eigenschaften des Sprechens, die über die einzelnen Laute/Phoneme hinausgehen 3. Lehre von den mess- und qualifizierbaren Aspekten dichterischer Sprache
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 Prosodie
- Prosodien plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Prosodie?
- /pʁozoˈdiː/
- [ˌpʁozoˈdiː]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Prosodie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Prosodie in German?
Prosodie appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).