Uhrzeiger
German, noun/ˈuːrˌtsaɪ̯ɡɐ/
Uhrzeiger is spelled U-H-R-Z-E-I-G-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written German, the 187,243rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Uhrzeiger is a German masculine noun meaning “hand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “länglicher, beweglicher Zeiger auf dem Zifferblatt einer Uhr, an dem man die Zeit ablesen kann”.
What does Uhrzeiger mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehand
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. länglicher, beweglicher Zeiger auf dem Zifferblatt einer Uhr, an dem man die Zeit ablesen kann
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 Uhrzeiger
- Uhrzeigers genitive
- Uhrzeigern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Uhrzeiger?
- /ˈuːrˌtsaɪ̯ɡɐ/
- [ˈuːɐ̯ˌt͡saɪ̯ɡɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Uhrzeiger in German?
Uhrzeiger appears about once in every 12 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).