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geriffelt

German, adjective[ɡəˈʁɪfl̩t]

geriffelt is spelled G-E-R-I-F-F-E-L-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 195,050th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geriffelt is a German adjective meaning “fluted” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of riffeln. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit feinen, parallelen Riefen, Rillen oder Rippen (Graten) versehen”.

What does geriffelt mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    fluted

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of riffeln

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. mit feinen, parallelen Riefen, Rillen oder Rippen (Graten) versehen

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 geriffelt

  • geriffelter masculine nominative singular
  • ist geriffelt masculine predicative singular
  • es ist geriffelt neuter predicative singular
  • sind geriffelt plural predicative third-person
  • geriffelte feminine nominative singular
  • geriffeltes neuter nominative singular
  • geriffelten genitive masculine singular
  • geriffeltem dative masculine singular
  • der geriffelte definite includes-article masculine
  • die geriffelte definite feminine includes-article
  • das geriffelte definite includes-article neuter
  • die geriffelten definite includes-article nominative
  • des geriffelten definite genitive includes-article
  • der geriffelten definite feminine genitive
  • dem geriffelten dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce geriffelt?

  • [ɡəˈʁɪfl̩t]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is geriffelt in German?

geriffelt appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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