Tefillin
German, noun/tefɪˈliːn/
Tefillin is spelled T-E-F-I-L-L-I-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written German, the 264,454th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tefillin is a German noun meaning “tefillin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gebetsriemen bestehend aus Arm-Tefillin und Kopf-Tefillin, schwarzen mit Lederriemen versehenen kleinen…”.
What does Tefillin mean in English?
noun
- 1
tefillin
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gebetsriemen bestehend aus Arm-Tefillin und Kopf-Tefillin, schwarzen mit Lederriemen versehenen kleinen, ledernen Gebetskapseln, die auf Pergament handgeschriebene Schriftrollen mit Texten aus der Thora, den fünf Büchern Moses, enthalten.
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 Tefillin
- Twillen variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Tefillin?
- /tefɪˈliːn/
- [tefɪˈliːn]
- [tfiˈliːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Tefillin
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Tefillin in German?
Tefillin appears about once in every 21 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).