Sprech
German, noun
Sprech is spelled S-P-R-E-C-H (6 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written German, the 25,938th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sprech is a German masculine noun meaning “jargon, speak (vocabulary and manner of speech associated with a specific group/person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, sprech is a different word: “first-person singular present of sprechen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Jargon einer bestimmten sozialen Gruppe”.
What does Sprech mean in English?
noun
- 1
informalmasculinejargon, speak (vocabulary and manner of speech associated with a specific group/person)
verb
- 1
colloquialfirst-person singular present of sprechen
- 2
colloquialsingular imperative of sprechen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Jargon einer bestimmten sozialen Gruppe
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 Sprech
- Sprechs genitive
- Spreches genitive singular
- Spreche dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Sprech
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Sprech in German?
Sprech appears 1.8 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).