Selfie
German, noun/ˈsɛlfi/
Selfie is spelled S-E-L-F-I-E (6 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written German, the 19,169th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Selfie is a German masculine noun meaning “selfie” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “meist mit dem Handy gemachte Bildaufnahme des Auslösenden selbst, in der Regel für den Gebrauch in sozialen…”.
What does Selfie mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. meist mit dem Handy gemachte Bildaufnahme des Auslösenden selbst, in der Regel für den Gebrauch in sozialen Netzwerken 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 Selfie
- Selfies genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Selfie?
- /ˈsɛlfi/
- colloquial /ˈzɛlfi(ː)/
- [ˈsɛlfi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Selfie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Selfie in German?
Selfie appears 2.8 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).