plumpsen
German, verb
plumpsen is spelled P-L-U-M-P-S-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 142,439th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Plumpsen is a German verb meaning “to flop, to plump” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Plumpsen is a different word: “gerund of plumpsen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “fallen, hineinfallen (mit Betonung auf Gewicht, Trägheit und Masse)”.
What does plumpsen mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto flop, to plump
noun
- 1
neutergerund of plumpsen
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Plumps
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fallen, hineinfallen (mit Betonung auf Gewicht, Trägheit und Masse)
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 plumpsen
- plumpst present singular third-person
- plumpste past
- geplumpst participle past
- sein auxiliary
- plumpsend participle present
- plumpse first-person indicative present
- plumpsest second-person singular subjunctive
- plumpset plural second-person subjunctive
- plumpsten first-person indicative plural
- plumpstest indicative preterite second-person
- plumpstet indicative plural preterite
- plumps imperative second-person singular
- bin geplumpst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sind geplumpst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- plumpse! imperative singular
- plumpst! imperative plural
- geplumpst sein active infinitive perfect
- zu plumpsen active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to plumpsen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is plumpsen in German?
plumpsen 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).