abspülen
German, verb
abspülen is spelled A-B-S-P-Ü-L-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 56,036th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abspülen is a German verb meaning “to wash off, to rinse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, abspulen is a different word: “to unwind, to unspool”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit Wasser oder anderen Flüssigkeiten von Schmutz befreien”.
What does abspülen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wash off, to rinse
- 2
to do the dishes
verb
- 1
to unwind, to unspool
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit Wasser oder anderen Flüssigkeiten von Schmutz befreien 2. Geschirr im Wasserbad oder unter fließendem Wasser reinigen 3. etwas mit Hilfe einer Flüssigkeit von etwas entfernen
verb: 1. etwas von einer Spule (oder einem ähnlichen Gegenstand) abwickeln 2. eine Tätigkeit schematisch, mit wenig Interesse vollziehen
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 abspülen
- spult ab present singular third-person
- spulte ab past
- abgespult participle past
- haben auxiliary
- abspulend participle present
- abzuspulen infinitive infinitive-zu
- spule ab first-person indicative present
- spulen ab first-person indicative plural
- spulst ab indicative present second-person
- spulest ab second-person singular subjunctive
- spulet ab plural second-person subjunctive
- spulten ab first-person indicative plural
- spultest ab indicative preterite second-person
- spultet ab indicative plural preterite
- spüle ab present
- spülst ab present
- spült ab present
- spülte ab past
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to abspülen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abspülen in German?
abspülen appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).