cachen
German, verb/ˈkɛʃn̩/
cachen is spelled C-A-C-H-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 161,302nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cachen is a German verb meaning “to cache” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Daten für einen neuerlichen Abruf in einem Zwischenspeicher ablegen”.
What does cachen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cache
- 2
to geocache
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Daten für einen neuerlichen Abruf in einem Zwischenspeicher ablegen 2. am Geocaching teilnehmen
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 cachen
- cacht present singular third-person
- cachte past
- gecacht participle past
- gecached participle past
- haben auxiliary
- cachend participle present
- cache first-person indicative present
- cachst indicative present second-person
- cachest second-person singular subjunctive
- cachet plural second-person subjunctive
- cachten first-person indicative plural
- cachtest indicative preterite second-person
- cachtet indicative plural preterite
- cach imperative second-person singular
- habe gecacht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- cach! imperative singular
- cache! imperative singular
- cacht! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cachen?
- /ˈkɛʃn̩/
- /ˈkæʃn̩/
- [ˈkɛʃn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cachen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cachen in German?
cachen appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).