kiesen
German, verb
kiesen is spelled K-I-E-S-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 195,050th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kiesen is a German verb meaning “to choose; to select” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kiesen is a different word: “dative plural of Kies”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “wählen, auswählen, erwählen”.
What does kiesen mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto choose; to select
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Kies
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. wählen, auswählen, erwählen
verb: 1. mit Kies belegen
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 kiesen
- kiest obsolete present singular
- kor archaic past
- gekoren archaic participle past
- köre archaic past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- 2 strong
- kiesend obsolete participle present
- kiese first-person indicative obsolete
- kiesest obsolete second-person singular
- kieset obsolete plural second-person
- koren archaic first-person indicative
- kören archaic first-person formal
- korst archaic indicative preterite
- kort archaic indicative plural
- körest archaic formal rare
- körst archaic formal rare
- köret archaic formal plural
- kört archaic formal plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is kiesen in German?
kiesen appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).