quirlen
German, verb
quirlen is spelled Q-U-I-R-L-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written German, the 189,851st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quirlen is a German verb meaning “to mix components with a whisk, to whisk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Quirlen is a different word: “dative plural of Quirl”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit einem Küchengerät, dem Quirl, verrühren oder Luft unter eine Masse schlagen”.
What does quirlen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mix components with a whisk, to whisk
- 2
to move in circles
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Quirl
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit einem Küchengerät, dem Quirl, verrühren oder Luft unter eine Masse schlagen 2. sich schnell, auch um sich selbst herum, bewegen
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 quirlen
- quirlt present singular third-person
- quirlte past
- gequirlt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- quirlend participle present
- quirle first-person indicative present
- quirlst indicative present second-person
- quirlest second-person singular subjunctive
- quirlet plural second-person subjunctive
- quirlten first-person indicative plural
- quirltest indicative preterite second-person
- quirltet indicative plural preterite
- quirl imperative second-person singular
- habe gequirlt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gequirlt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- quirl! imperative singular
- quirle! imperative singular
- quirlt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is quirlen in German?
quirlen appears about once in every 12 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).