pollen
German, verb
pollen is spelled P-O-L-L-E-N (6 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written German, the 21,211th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pollen is a German verb meaning “to poll, to periodically check the status of a device or variable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Pollen is a different word: “pollen”.
What does pollen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to poll, to periodically check the status of a device or variable.
noun
- 1
masculinepollen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Blütenstaub 2. ein einzelnes Korn des Blütenstaubes, also des Pollens
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 pollen
- pollt present singular third-person
- pollte past
- gepollt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- pollend participle present
- polle first-person indicative present
- pollst indicative present second-person
- pollest second-person singular subjunctive
- pollet plural second-person subjunctive
- pollten first-person indicative plural
- polltest indicative preterite second-person
- polltet indicative plural preterite
- poll imperative second-person singular
- habe gepollt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gepollt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- Pollens genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pollen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pollen in German?
pollen appears 2.4 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).