befühlen
German, verb
befühlen is spelled B-E-F-Ü-H-L-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written German, the 241,486th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Befühlen is a German verb meaning “to palpate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Befühlen is a different word: “gerund of befühlen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas vorsichtig/prüfend berühren”.
What does befühlen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to palpate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of befühlen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas vorsichtig/prüfend berühren
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 befühlen
- befühlt present singular third-person
- befühlte past
- haben auxiliary
- befühlend participle present
- befühle first-person indicative present
- befühlst indicative present second-person
- befühlest second-person singular subjunctive
- befühlet plural second-person subjunctive
- befühlten first-person indicative plural
- befühltest indicative preterite second-person
- befühltet indicative plural preterite
- befühl imperative second-person singular
- habe befühlt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben befühlt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- befühle! imperative singular
- befühl! imperative singular
- befühlt! imperative plural
- befühlt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is befühlen in German?
befühlen appears about once in every 18 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).