fiedeln
German, verb
fiedeln is spelled F-I-E-D-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written German, the 267,890th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fiedeln is a German verb meaning “to fiddle, to play a string instrument (usually badly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Fiedeln is a different word: “plural of Fiedel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Geige (Fiedel) spielen”.
What does fiedeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto fiddle, to play a string instrument (usually badly)
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Fiedel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Geige (Fiedel) 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 fiedeln
- fiedelt present singular third-person
- fiedelte past
- gefiedelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- fiedelnd participle present
- fiedle first-person indicative present
- fiedele first-person indicative present
- fiedel first-person indicative present
- fiedelst indicative present second-person
- fiedelest second-person singular subjunctive
- fiedlest second-person singular subjunctive
- fiedelet plural second-person subjunctive
- fiedlet plural second-person subjunctive
- fiedelten first-person indicative plural
- fiedeltest indicative preterite second-person
- fiedeltet indicative plural preterite
- fiedel! imperative singular
- fiedle! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is fiedeln in German?
fiedeln appears about once in every 22 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).