Welscher
German, noun
Welscher is a German masculine noun meaning “Romance language speaker (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive/dative singular of Welsche. In lower case, welscher is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person, die in ihrer Sprache viele entbehrliche Fremdwörter gebraucht”.
What does Welscher mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineRomance language speaker (male or of unspecified gender)
- 2
SwitzerlandmasculineFrench native speaker (male or of unspecified gender)
noun
- 1
femininestrong genitive/dative singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive plural
adjective
- 1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 3
strong genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person, die in ihrer Sprache viele entbehrliche Fremdwörter gebraucht
noun: 1. Schweizer, dessen Muttersprache Französisch ist 2. Romanischsprachiger (insbesondere der Französisch- oder Italienischsprachige im Gegensatz zum Deutschsprachigen) 3. Fremdländischer
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 Welscher
- der Welsche definite nominative
- Welschen genitive
- Welsche plural
- die Welschen definite plural
- Welschem dative singular strong
- Welschers genitive singular
- Welschern dative plural
- des Welschen genitive singular
- der Welschen genitive plural
- dem Welschen dative singular
- den Welschen dative plural
- ein Welscher nominative singular
- keine Welschen nominative plural
- eines Welschen genitive singular
- keiner Welschen genitive plural
- einem Welschen dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Welscher in German?
Welscher appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).