flittern
German, verb
flittern is spelled F-L-I-T-T-E-R-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written German, the 309,493rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flittern is a German verb meaning “to honeymoon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Flittern is a different word: “dative plural of Flitter”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “unruhig glitzern, flimmern”.
What does flittern mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto glisten, sparkle
- 2
obsoleteto flutter
- 3
obsoleteto laugh, to giggle
- 4
obsoleteto fawn, to flatter
verb
- 1
colloquialto honeymoon
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Flitter
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. unruhig glitzern, flimmern 2. sich in den Flitterwochen befinden
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 flittern
- flittert present singular third-person
- flitterte past
- geflittert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- flitternd participle present
- flittre first-person indicative present
- flittere first-person indicative present
- flitter first-person indicative present
- flitterst indicative present second-person
- flitterest second-person singular subjunctive
- flittrest second-person singular subjunctive
- flitteret plural second-person subjunctive
- flittret plural second-person subjunctive
- flitterten first-person indicative plural
- flittertest indicative preterite second-person
- flittertet indicative plural preterite
- flitter! imperative singular
- flittere! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to flittern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flittern in German?
flittern appears about once in every 28 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).