flippen
German, verb/ˈflɪpən/
flippen is spelled F-L-I-P-P-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 81,387th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flippen is a German verb meaning “to skip (of a flat stone or similar) (to throw or be thrown so as to bounce or ricochet over a water surface)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “flippern, an einem Flipperautomaten spielen”.
What does flippen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to skip (of a flat stone or similar) (to throw or be thrown so as to bounce or ricochet over a water surface)
- 2
to summersault
- 3
Austriato jump a Fosbury flop
- 4
alternative form of flippern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. flippern, an einem Flipperautomaten spielen 2. hopsen, springen lassen 3. hopsen, tanzen 4. mit dem Snowboard einen Salto schlagen
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 flippen
- flippt present singular third-person
- flippte past
- geflippt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- flippend participle present
- flippe first-person indicative present
- flippst indicative present second-person
- flippest second-person singular subjunctive
- flippet plural second-person subjunctive
- flippten first-person indicative plural
- flipptest indicative preterite second-person
- flipptet indicative plural preterite
- flipp imperative second-person singular
- habe geflippt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geflippt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- flipp! imperative singular
- flippe! imperative singular
- flippt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flippen?
- /ˈflɪpən/
- [ˈflɪp(ə)n]
- [ˈflɪpm̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flippen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flippen in German?
flippen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).