abriegeln
German, verb
abriegeln is spelled A-B-R-I-E-G-E-L-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 95,383rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abriegeln is a German verb meaning “to bar, to bolt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Abriegeln is a different word: “gerund of abriegeln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit einem Riegel versperren”.
What does abriegeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bar, to bolt
- 2
to close off, to block off
noun
- 1
neutergerund of abriegeln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit einem Riegel versperren 2. den Zugang zu etwas versperren
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 abriegeln
- riegelt ab present singular third-person
- riegelte ab past
- abgeriegelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- abriegelnd participle present
- abzuriegeln infinitive infinitive-zu
- riegle ab first-person indicative present
- riegele ab first-person indicative present
- riegel ab first-person indicative present
- riegeln ab first-person indicative plural
- riegelst ab indicative present second-person
- riegelest ab second-person singular subjunctive
- rieglest ab second-person singular subjunctive
- riegelet ab plural second-person subjunctive
- rieglet ab plural second-person subjunctive
- riegelten ab first-person indicative plural
- riegeltest ab indicative preterite second-person
- riegeltet ab indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is abriegeln in German?
abriegeln appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).