Spielführer
German, noun[ˈʃpiːlˌfyːʁɐ]
Spielführer is spelled S-P-I-E-L-F-Ü-H-R-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 96,776th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spielführer is a German masculine noun meaning “captain (player who leads a team and serves as contact person for the referee)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person, welche die Regie auf dem Spielfeld beziehungsweise die Leitung in einem Spiel übernimmt”.
What does Spielführer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecaptain (player who leads a team and serves as contact person for the referee)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person, welche die Regie auf dem Spielfeld beziehungsweise die Leitung in einem Spiel übernimmt
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 Spielführer
- Spielführers genitive
- Spielführerin feminine
- Spielführern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Spielführer?
- [ˈʃpiːlˌfyːʁɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Spielführer in German?
Spielführer appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).