Stellvertreterkrieg
German, noun/ˈʃtɛlfɛɐ̯tʁeːtɐkʁiːk/
Stellvertreterkrieg is spelled S-T-E-L-L-V-E-R-T-R-E-T-E-R-K-R-I-E-G (19 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 104,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stellvertreterkrieg is a German masculine noun meaning “proxy war (a war where two powers use third parties as a supplement to, or a substitute for, fighting each other directly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Krieg, in dem sich die in Konflikt befindliche Großmächte nicht beide direkt, sondern über Drittstaaten ihre…”.
What does Stellvertreterkrieg mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineproxy war (a war where two powers use third parties as a supplement to, or a substitute for, fighting each other directly)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Krieg, in dem sich die in Konflikt befindliche Großmächte nicht beide direkt, sondern über Drittstaaten ihre militärische Auseinandersetzung austragen.
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 Stellvertreterkrieg
- Stellvertreterkrieges genitive
- Stellvertreterkriegs genitive
- Stellvertreterkriege plural
- Stellvertreterkriegen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Stellvertreterkrieg?
- /ˈʃtɛlfɛɐ̯tʁeːtɐkʁiːk/
- [ˈʃtɛlfɛɐ̯tʁeːtɐˌkʁiːk]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Stellvertreterkrieg in German?
Stellvertreterkrieg 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).