flippern
German, verb
flippern is spelled F-L-I-P-P-E-R-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written German, the 225,828th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flippern is a German verb meaning “to play pinball” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Flippern is a different word: “dative plural of Flipper”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “an einem Spielgerät (Flipper) spielen, an dem man eine rollende Kugel/Kugeln durch Hebel/Knöpfe in ihrer…”.
What does flippern mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto play pinball
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Flipper
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. an einem Spielgerät (Flipper) spielen, an dem man eine rollende Kugel/Kugeln durch Hebel/Knöpfe in ihrer Fahrt beeinflusst
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 flippern
- flippert present singular third-person
- flipperte past
- geflippert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- flippernd participle present
- flippre first-person indicative present
- flippere first-person indicative present
- flipper first-person indicative present
- flipperst indicative present second-person
- flipperest second-person singular subjunctive
- flipprest second-person singular subjunctive
- flipperet plural second-person subjunctive
- flippret plural second-person subjunctive
- flipperten first-person indicative plural
- flippertest indicative preterite second-person
- flippertet indicative plural preterite
- flippere! imperative singular
- flippert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is flippern in German?
flippern appears about once in every 16 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).