bowlen
German, verb
bowlen is spelled B-O-W-L-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 99,595th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bowlen is a German verb meaning “to bowl, to play bowling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bowlen is a different word: “plural of Bowle”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “das Spiel Bowling spielen”.
What does bowlen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bowl, to play bowling
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Bowle
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. amerikanische Variante des Kegelns
verb: 1. das Spiel Bowling spielen
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 bowlen
- bowlt present singular third-person
- bowlte past
- gebowlt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- bowlend participle present
- bowle first-person indicative present
- bowlst indicative present second-person
- bowlest second-person singular subjunctive
- bowlet plural second-person subjunctive
- bowlten first-person indicative plural
- bowltest indicative preterite second-person
- bowltet indicative plural preterite
- bowl imperative second-person singular
- habe gebowlt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gebowlt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- Bowlens genitive singular
- bowl! imperative singular
- bowlt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bowlen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bowlen in German?
bowlen 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).