Queue
German, noun/køː/
Queue is spelled Q-U-E-U-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 48,795th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Queue is a German masculine noun meaning “cue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Spielstock beim Billard”.
What does Queue mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineneutercue
noun
- 1
archaicfemininethe end of a column of troops
noun
- 1
femininequeue (waiting list, e.g. of tasks to be done)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Spielstock beim Billard 2. eine Technik, Technologie im Buchdruck 3. das Ende einer Militärkolonne 4. lange Reihe oder Schlange
noun: 1. Warteschlange, welche zum Beispiel die Reihenfolge zu behandelnder Prozesse in der Datenverarbeitung bestimmt
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 Queue
- Queues genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Queue?
- /køː/
- /kjuː/
- [køː]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Queue
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Queue in German?
Queue appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).