Sprichwort
German, noun/ˈʃpʁɪçˌvɔʁt/
Sprichwort is spelled S-P-R-I-C-H-W-O-R-T (10 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written German, the 13,580th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sprichwort is a German neuter noun meaning “saying, proverb, adage, maxim (phrase)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Sinnspruch volkstümlichen Charakters, meist anonym überliefert; oft erzieherisch gedachter Erfahrungssatz…”.
What does Sprichwort mean in English?
noun
- 1
neutersaying, proverb, adage, maxim (phrase)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sinnspruch volkstümlichen Charakters, meist anonym überliefert; oft erzieherisch gedachter Erfahrungssatz, der treffend und bildmächtig formuliert ist
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 Sprichwort
- Sprichwortes genitive
- Sprichworts genitive
- Sprichwörter plural
- Sprichworte plural
- Sprichwörtern dative definite plural
- Sprichworten dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Sprichwort?
- /ˈʃpʁɪçˌvɔʁt/
- [ˈʃpʁɪçˌvɔʁt]
- [ˌ-vɔɐ̯t]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Sprichwort
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Sprichwort in German?
Sprichwort appears 4.4 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).