haspeln
German, verb
haspeln is spelled H-A-S-P-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written German, the 348,070th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Haspeln is a German verb meaning “to reel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Haspeln is a different word: “plural of Haspel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas Fadenförmiges wickeln”.
What does haspeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to reel
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Haspel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas Fadenförmiges wickeln 2. hastig reden 3. hastig arbeiten 4. (hastig) Gedankengänge abarbeiten
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 haspeln
- haspelt present singular third-person
- haspelte past
- gehaspelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- haspelnd participle present
- hasple first-person indicative present
- haspele first-person indicative present
- haspel first-person indicative present
- haspelst indicative present second-person
- haspelest second-person singular subjunctive
- hasplest second-person singular subjunctive
- haspelet plural second-person subjunctive
- hasplet plural second-person subjunctive
- haspelten first-person indicative plural
- haspeltest indicative preterite second-person
- haspeltet indicative plural preterite
- hasple! imperative singular
- haspele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is haspeln in German?
haspeln appears about once in every 35 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).