recken
German, verb
recken is a German verb meaning “to stretch (one's muscles)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Recken is a different word: “plural of Recke”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in Längsrichtung dehnen/strecken”.
What does recken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stretch (one's muscles)
verb
- 1
Austriacolloquialto retch, to gag
Mich reckt es, wenn ich nur daran denke.
noun
- 1
plural of Recke
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in Längsrichtung dehnen/strecken
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 recken
- reckt present singular third-person
- reckte past
- gereckt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- reckend participle present
- recke first-person indicative present
- reckst indicative present second-person
- reckest second-person singular subjunctive
- recket plural second-person subjunctive
- reckten first-person indicative plural
- recktest indicative preterite second-person
- recktet indicative plural preterite
- reck imperative second-person singular
- habe gereckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gereckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- reck! imperative singular
- recke! imperative singular
- reckt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is recken in German?
recken appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).