sprachlos
German, adjective/ˈʃpʁaːχloːs/
sprachlos is spelled S-P-R-A-C-H-L-O-S (9 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written German, the 17,258th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sprachlos is a German adjective meaning “speechless, dumbfounded, tongue-tied” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem fehlen die Worte, einen Sachverhalt oder ein Ereignis zu kommentieren oder sich dazu zu stellen…”.
What does sprachlos mean in English?
adjective
- 1
speechless, dumbfounded, tongue-tied
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. jemandem fehlen die Worte, einen Sachverhalt oder ein Ereignis zu kommentieren oder sich dazu zu stellen, meist aus Überraschung 2. ohne gesprochene Worte; stumm
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 sprachlos
- sprachloser masculine nominative singular
- sprachlose feminine nominative singular
- sprachloses neuter nominative singular
- sprachlosen genitive masculine singular
- sprachlosem dative masculine singular
- der sprachlose definite includes-article masculine
- die sprachlose definite feminine includes-article
- das sprachlose definite includes-article neuter
- die sprachlosen definite includes-article nominative
- des sprachlosen definite genitive includes-article
- der sprachlosen definite feminine genitive
- dem sprachlosen dative definite includes-article
- den sprachlosen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sprachlos?
- /ˈʃpʁaːχloːs/
- [ˈʃpʁaːxloːs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sprachlos
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sprachlos in German?
sprachlos appears 3.2 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).