quieken
German, verb
quieken is spelled Q-U-I-E-K-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 161,302nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quieken is a German verb meaning “to squeal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Quieken is a different word: “gerund of quieken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen hohen und schrillen Laut von sich geben (vom Ferkel, Schwein)”.
What does quieken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to squeal
noun
- 1
neutergerund of quieken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen hohen und schrillen Laut von sich geben (vom Ferkel, Schwein)
noun: 1. quiekendes Geräusch
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 quieken
- quiekt present singular third-person
- quiekte past
- gequiekt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- quiekend participle present
- quieke first-person indicative present
- quiekst indicative present second-person
- quiekest second-person singular subjunctive
- quieket plural second-person subjunctive
- quiekten first-person indicative plural
- quiektest indicative preterite second-person
- quiektet indicative plural preterite
- quiek imperative second-person singular
- habe gequiekt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gequiekt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- quieksen variant
- quiek! imperative singular
- quieke! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to quieken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quieken in German?
quieken appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).