kippeln
German, verb[ˈkɪpl̩n]
kippeln is spelled K-I-P-P-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written German, the 343,581st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kippeln is a German verb meaning “to tilt back and forth, to wobble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “unsicher, instabil auf den Beinen, den Füßen (auch denen eines Möbelstücks) stehen, schwanken”.
What does kippeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tilt back and forth, to wobble
- 2
to tilt one's chair back
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. unsicher, instabil auf den Beinen, den Füßen (auch denen eines Möbelstücks) stehen, schwanken 2. (ein Sitzmöbel) immer wieder in eine instabile Lage bringen, indem es auf zwei der vier Beine gekippt wird
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 kippeln
- kippelt present singular third-person
- kippelte past
- gekippelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kippelnd participle present
- kipple first-person indicative present
- kippele first-person indicative present
- kippel first-person indicative present
- kippelst indicative present second-person
- kippelest second-person singular subjunctive
- kipplest second-person singular subjunctive
- kippelet plural second-person subjunctive
- kipplet plural second-person subjunctive
- kippelten first-person indicative plural
- kippeltest indicative preterite second-person
- kippeltet indicative plural preterite
- kippel! imperative singular
- kipple! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kippeln?
- [ˈkɪpl̩n]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is kippeln in German?
kippeln appears about once in every 34 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).