Sportmuffel
German, noun/ˈʃpɔʁtˌmʊfl̩/
Sportmuffel is spelled S-P-O-R-T-M-U-F-F-E-L (11 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written German, the 285,944th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sportmuffel is a German masculine noun meaning “couch potato (someone uninterested in physical activity)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Sportmuffel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecouch potato (someone uninterested in physical activity)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Sportmuffel
- Sportmuffels genitive
- Sportmuffeln dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Sportmuffel?
- /ˈʃpɔʁtˌmʊfl̩/
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Sportmuffel in German?
Sportmuffel appears about once in every 25 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).