kanzeln
German, verb
kanzeln is spelled K-A-N-Z-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 130,853rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kanzeln is a German verb meaning “to preach down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kanzeln is a different word: “plural of Kanzel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem eine Strafpredigt halten (ihn ›von der Kanzel werfen‹)”.
What does kanzeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto preach down
noun
- 1
plural of Kanzel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandem eine Strafpredigt halten (ihn ›von der Kanzel werfen‹)
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 kanzeln
- kanzelt present singular third-person
- kanzelte past
- gekanzelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kanzelnd participle present
- kanzle first-person indicative present
- kanzele first-person indicative present
- kanzel first-person indicative present
- kanzelst indicative present second-person
- kanzelest second-person singular subjunctive
- kanzlest second-person singular subjunctive
- kanzelet plural second-person subjunctive
- kanzlet plural second-person subjunctive
- kanzelten first-person indicative plural
- kanzeltest indicative preterite second-person
- kanzeltet indicative plural preterite
- kanzel! imperative singular
- kanzele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is kanzeln in German?
kanzeln appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).