henken
German, verb/ˈhɛŋkən/
henken is spelled H-E-N-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written German, the 241,486th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Henken is a German verb meaning “to hang; to execute by hanging” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “veraltend: jemanden durch Hängen/durch den Strang hinrichten”.
What does henken mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto hang; to execute by hanging
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. veraltend: jemanden durch Hängen/durch den Strang hinrichten
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 henken
- henkt present singular third-person
- henkte past
- gehenkt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- henkend participle present
- henke first-person indicative present
- henkst indicative present second-person
- henkest second-person singular subjunctive
- henket plural second-person subjunctive
- henkten first-person indicative plural
- henktest indicative preterite second-person
- henktet indicative plural preterite
- henk imperative second-person singular
- habe gehenkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gehenkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- henk! imperative singular
- henke! imperative singular
- henkt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce henken?
- /ˈhɛŋkən/
- [ˈhɛŋkən]
- [ˈhɛŋkŋ̍]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is henken in German?
henken appears about once in every 18 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).