Schauspieler
German, noun
Schauspieler is spelled S-C-H-A-U-S-P-I-E-L-E-R (12 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written German, the 2,344th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schauspieler is a German masculine noun meaning “actor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schauspieler is a different word: “singular imperative of schauspielern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Darsteller in Film oder Theater”.
What does Schauspieler mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineactor
verb
- 1
singular imperative of schauspielern
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of schauspielern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Darsteller in Film oder Theater 2. Person, die sich verstellt, etwas Falsches vorgibt
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 Schauspieler
- Schauspielers genitive
- Schauspielerin feminine
- Schauspielern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schauspieler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schauspieler in German?
Schauspieler appears 35 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).