Streichinstrument
German, noun/ˈʃtʁaɪ̯çʔɪnstʁuˌmɛnt/
Streichinstrument is spelled S-T-R-E-I-C-H-I-N-S-T-R-U-M-E-N-T (17 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 179,801st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Streichinstrument is a German neuter noun meaning “bowed string instrument” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Saiteninstrument, dessen Saiten mit einem Bogen oder Rad gestrichen werden und die entstehenden Schwingungen…”.
What does Streichinstrument mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuterbowed string instrument
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Saiteninstrument, dessen Saiten mit einem Bogen oder Rad gestrichen werden und die entstehenden Schwingungen durch einen Resonanzkörper, elektrisch oder elektronisch verstärkt werden
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 Streichinstrument
- Streichinstrumentes genitive
- Streichinstruments genitive
- Streichinstrumente plural
- Streichinstrumenten dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Streichinstrument?
- /ˈʃtʁaɪ̯çʔɪnstʁuˌmɛnt/
- [ˈʃtʁaɪ̯çʔɪnstʁuˌmɛnt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Streichinstrument in German?
Streichinstrument appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).