rappeln
German, verb
rappeln is spelled R-A-P-P-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 177,389th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rappeln is a German verb meaning “to rattle, to clatter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Rappeln is a different word: “gerund of rappeln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Hilfsverb haben”.
What does rappeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rattle, to clatter
noun
- 1
neutergerund of rappeln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hilfsverb haben: 2. ein Geräusch von sich geben, das an Rasseln oder Klappern erinnert 3. an etwas rütteln, wodurch ein klapperndes Geräusch hervorgerufen wird 4. nicht recht bei Sinnen sein
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 rappeln
- rappelt present singular third-person
- rappelte past
- gerappelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- rappelnd participle present
- rapple first-person indicative present
- rappele first-person indicative present
- rappel first-person indicative present
- rappelst indicative present second-person
- rappelest second-person singular subjunctive
- rapplest second-person singular subjunctive
- rappelet plural second-person subjunctive
- rapplet plural second-person subjunctive
- rappelten first-person indicative plural
- rappeltest indicative preterite second-person
- rappeltet indicative plural preterite
- rapple! imperative singular
- rappele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is rappeln in German?
rappeln appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).