frisieren
German, verb
frisieren is spelled F-R-I-S-I-E-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 75,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frisieren is a German verb meaning “to dress the hair” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Frisieren is a different word: “gerund of frisieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “menschliches Kopfhaar gestalten”.
What does frisieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dress the hair
- 2
informalto fudge, to cook (books)
- 3
informalto soup up (a vehicle engine etc.)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of frisieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. menschliches Kopfhaar gestalten 2. die Leistung einer Maschine ausreizen 3. Urkunden, Dokumente oder Nachrichten für seine Zwecke verändern beziehungsweise verfälschen
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 frisieren
- frisiert present singular third-person
- frisierte past
- haben auxiliary
- frisierend participle present
- frisiere first-person indicative present
- frisierst indicative present second-person
- frisierest second-person singular subjunctive
- frisieret plural second-person subjunctive
- frisierten first-person indicative plural
- frisiertest indicative preterite second-person
- frisiertet indicative plural preterite
- frisier imperative second-person singular
- habe frisiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben frisiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- frisiere! imperative singular
- frisier! imperative singular
- frisiert! imperative plural
- frisiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to frisieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frisieren in German?
frisieren 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).