popeln
German, verb
popeln is spelled P-O-P-E-L-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 129,075th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Popeln is a German verb meaning “to pick one's nose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Popeln is a different word: “nominalized infinitive of popeln: the act of picking one’s nose”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit dem Finger in etwas herumbohren, besonders in der Nase”.
What does popeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto pick one's nose
noun
- 1
neuternominalized infinitive of popeln: the act of picking one’s nose
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Popel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit dem Finger in etwas herumbohren, besonders in der Nase
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 popeln
- popelt present singular third-person
- popelte past
- gepopelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- popelnd participle present
- pople first-person indicative present
- popele first-person indicative present
- popel first-person indicative present
- popelst indicative present second-person
- popelest second-person singular subjunctive
- poplest second-person singular subjunctive
- popelet plural second-person subjunctive
- poplet plural second-person subjunctive
- popelten first-person indicative plural
- popeltest indicative preterite second-person
- popeltet indicative plural preterite
- pople! imperative singular
- popele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is popeln in German?
popeln 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).