Flipper
German, noun
Flipper is spelled F-L-I-P-P-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 48,795th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flipper is a German masculine noun meaning “pinball (game)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, flipper is a different word: “singular imperative of flippern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Vordergliedmaßen bei Walen und Meeresschildkröten”.
What does Flipper mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepinball (game)
- 2
masculinepinball machine
- 3
masculineflipper (lever in a pinball machine)
verb
- 1
singular imperative of flippern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vordergliedmaßen bei Walen und Meeresschildkröten 2. Automatenspiel, bei dem eine Kugel auf einem geneigten Spielfeld bewegt werden muss 3. Spielautomat, an dem eine Kugel auf einem geneigten Spielfeld bewegt werden muss 4. paarweise vorhandene Hebel im Flipperautomaten, mit denen die Kugel im Spiel gehalten wird
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 Flipper
- Flippers genitive
- Flippern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Flipper
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Flipper in German?
Flipper appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).