placken
German, verb
placken is spelled P-L-A-C-K-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 36 million words in written German, the 357,274th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Placken is a German verb meaning “to toil, labour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Placken is a different word: “patch, rag of cloth, flat torn-off piece of anything”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “bis zur Erschöpfung (körperlich) arbeiten, sich bei einer Tätigkeit sehr anstrengen”.
What does placken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to toil, labour
noun
- 1
masculinepatch, rag of cloth, flat torn-off piece of anything
- 2
masculinelarge stain or discoloration
- 3
masculinepatch of land
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. bis zur Erschöpfung (körperlich) arbeiten, sich bei einer Tätigkeit sehr anstrengen
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 placken
- Plackens genitive
- plackt present singular third-person
- plackte past
- geplackt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- plackend participle present
- placke first-person indicative present
- plackst indicative present second-person
- plackest second-person singular subjunctive
- placket plural second-person subjunctive
- plackten first-person indicative plural
- placktest indicative preterite second-person
- placktet indicative plural preterite
- plack imperative second-person singular
- plack! imperative singular
- placke! imperative singular
- plackt! imperative plural
- sich placken infinitive present not-extended
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is placken in German?
placken appears about once in every 36 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).