glücken
German, verb
glücken is spelled G-L-Ü-C-K-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 146,442nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glücken is a German verb meaning “to succeed, be successful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, glucken is a different word: “to cluck”. On this page, Glucken is a different word: “plural of Glucke”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “wie erhofft eintreten, wie erwünscht ausfallen (eventuell mit einer gewissen Portion Zufall, Glück)”.
What does glücken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to succeed, be successful
Die Operation ist geglückt.
- 2
for there to be success [with dative ‘to someone’ and zu (+ infinitive) ‘in doing something’] (idiomatically translated by English succeed with the dative object as the subject)
Es ist mir nicht geglückt, die Unterlagen zu finden.
verb
- 1
to cluck
- 2
to brood
- 3
colloquialto sit around together (especially of pairs or groups who do this frequently)
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Glucke
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. wie erhofft eintreten, wie erwünscht ausfallen (eventuell mit einer gewissen Portion Zufall, Glück)
verb: 1. sich als Henne (Glucke) um den Nachwuchs kümmern, ihn rufen; brüten wollen 2. sich als Person/Mutter übertrieben fürsorglich und beschützend (um seine Kinder) kümmern 3. nur so dasitzen und nichts tun oder vorhaben
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 glücken
- glückt present singular third-person
- glückte past
- geglückt participle past
- sein auxiliary
- glückend participle present
- glücke first-person indicative present
- glückst indicative present second-person
- glückest second-person singular subjunctive
- glücket plural second-person subjunctive
- glückten first-person indicative plural
- glücktest indicative preterite second-person
- glücktet indicative plural preterite
- glück imperative second-person singular
- bin geglückt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sind geglückt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- glücke! imperative singular
- glückt! imperative plural
- geglückt sein active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is glücken in German?
glücken appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).