Soul
German, noun/sɔʊ̯l/
Soul is spelled S-O-U-L (4 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written German, the 10,637th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Soul is a German masculine noun meaning “soul music, soul” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwa ab Mitte der 1950er Jahre entstandene musikalische Stilrichtung der afroamerikanischen Unterhaltungsmusik”.
What does Soul mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesoul music, soul
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. etwa ab Mitte der 1950er Jahre entstandene musikalische Stilrichtung der afroamerikanischen Unterhaltungsmusik
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 Soul
- Souls genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Soul?
- /sɔʊ̯l/
- /zoːl/
- [sɔʊ̯l]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Soul
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Soul in German?
Soul appears 6.0 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).