muffen
German, verb/ˈmʊfən/
muffen is spelled M-U-F-F-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 138,538th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Muffen is a German verb meaning “to have a moldy smell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “unangenehm nach etwas riechen”.
What does muffen mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto have a moldy smell
- 2
colloquialto stink
verb
- 1
to apply sleeves to or in sleeve technique
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. unangenehm nach etwas riechen
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 muffen
- mufft present singular third-person
- muffte past
- gemufft participle past
- haben auxiliary
- muffend participle present
- muffe first-person indicative present
- muffst indicative present second-person
- muffest second-person singular subjunctive
- muffet plural second-person subjunctive
- mufften first-person indicative plural
- mufftest indicative preterite second-person
- mufftet indicative plural preterite
- muff imperative second-person singular
- habe gemufft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gemufft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- muff! imperative singular
- muffe! imperative singular
- mufft! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce muffen?
- /ˈmʊfən/
- [ˈmʊfɱ̩]
- [ˈmʊfn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is muffen in German?
muffen appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).