pellen
German, verb
pellen is spelled P-E-L-L-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 125,379th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pellen is a German verb meaning “to peel (chiefly when the peel can be pulled off in strips or pieces, as with cooked potatoes, but not with raw ones)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Pellen is a different word: “genitive singular of Pelle”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Haut oder Schale entfernen”.
What does pellen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to peel (chiefly when the peel can be pulled off in strips or pieces, as with cooked potatoes, but not with raw ones)
ein hartgekochtes Ei pellen
- 2
to peel, to peel off (of skin, etc.)
noun
- 1
genitive singular of Pelle
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Haut oder Schale entfernen
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 pellen
- pellt present singular third-person
- pellte past
- gepellt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- pellend participle present
- pelle first-person indicative present
- pellst indicative present second-person
- pellest second-person singular subjunctive
- pellet plural second-person subjunctive
- pellten first-person indicative plural
- pelltest indicative preterite second-person
- pelltet indicative plural preterite
- pell imperative second-person singular
- habe gepellt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gepellt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- pell! imperative singular
- pelle! imperative singular
- pellt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pellen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pellen in German?
pellen 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).