blecken
German, verb[ˈblɛkn̩]
blecken is spelled B-L-E-C-K-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written German, the 313,524th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blecken is a German verb meaning “to bare” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “entblößen, heute nur noch redensartlich”.
What does blecken mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto bare
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. entblößen, heute nur noch redensartlich
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 blecken
- bleckt present singular third-person
- bleckte past
- gebleckt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- bleckend participle present
- blecke first-person indicative present
- bleckst indicative present second-person
- bleckest second-person singular subjunctive
- blecket plural second-person subjunctive
- bleckten first-person indicative plural
- blecktest indicative preterite second-person
- blecktet indicative plural preterite
- bleck imperative second-person singular
- habe gebleckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gebleckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- blecke! imperative singular
- bleck! imperative singular
- bleckt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce blecken?
- [ˈblɛkn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is blecken in German?
blecken appears about once in every 29 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).