gleichen
German, verb
gleichen is spelled G-L-E-I-C-H-E-N (8 letters) and appears 112 times per million words in written German, the 772nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gleichen is a German verb meaning “to be like, to equal to, to resemble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive masculine/neuter singular of gleich. With a capital, Gleichen is a different word: “plural of Gleiche”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “wenige oder keine Unterschiede zu einer anderen Sache aufweisen”.
What does gleichen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be like, to equal to, to resemble
- 2
to be alike
adjective
- 1
masculineneuterstrong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- 2
weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- 3
masculinestrong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- 4
strong dative plural
- 5
weak/mixed all-case plural
noun
- 1
plural of Gleiche
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. wenige oder keine Unterschiede zu einer anderen Sache aufweisen
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 gleichen
- gleicht present singular third-person
- glich past
- geglichen participle past
- haben auxiliary
- 1 strong
- gleichend participle present
- gleiche first-person indicative present
- gleichst indicative present second-person
- gleichest second-person singular subjunctive
- gleichet plural second-person subjunctive
- glichen first-person indicative plural
- gliche first-person formal rare
- glichst indicative preterite second-person
- glicht indicative plural preterite
- glichest formal rare second-person
- glichet formal plural rare
- gleich imperative second-person singular
- gleiche! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gleichen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gleichen in German?
gleichen appears 112 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).