pudeln
German, verb
pudeln is spelled P-U-D-E-L-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written German, the 371,567th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pudeln is a German verb meaning “to splash, to dabble (in water)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Pudeln is a different word: “dative plural of Pudel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “danebenwerfen und keinen Kegel treffen”.
What does pudeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to splash, to dabble (in water)
- 2
to botch, to miss (a strike)
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Pudel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. danebenwerfen und keinen Kegel treffen 2. im/mit Wasser planschen/plätschern
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 pudeln
- pudelt present singular third-person
- pudelte past
- gepudelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- pudelnd participle present
- pudle first-person indicative present
- pudele first-person indicative present
- pudel first-person indicative present
- pudelst indicative present second-person
- pudelest second-person singular subjunctive
- pudlest second-person singular subjunctive
- pudelet plural second-person subjunctive
- pudlet plural second-person subjunctive
- pudelten first-person indicative plural
- pudeltest indicative preterite second-person
- pudeltet indicative plural preterite
- pudel! imperative singular
- pudele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is pudeln in German?
pudeln appears about once in every 39 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).