Klapper
German, noun
Klapper is spelled K-L-A-P-P-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 91,399th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Klapper is a German feminine noun meaning “rattle (child's toy, musical instrument, of a rattlesnake, etc.), ratchet (noisemaker, musical instrument)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, klapper is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gerät, das bei entsprechender Bewegung Schlaggeräusche erzeugt, indem ein beweglicher Teil auf einen anderen…”.
What does Klapper mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerattle (child's toy, musical instrument, of a rattlesnake, etc.), ratchet (noisemaker, musical instrument)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gerät, das bei entsprechender Bewegung Schlaggeräusche erzeugt, indem ein beweglicher Teil auf einen anderen schlägt
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 Klapper
- Klappern plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Klapper in German?
Klapper appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).