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rappen

German, verb

rappen is spelled R-A-P-P-E-N (6 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written German, the 25,938th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rappen is a German verb meaning “to rap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Rappen is a different word: “rappen (a unit of currency in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, equal to…”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Art von Sprechgesang machen, der aus der Musikrichtung Hiphop entstand”.

What does rappen mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to rap

noun

as Rappen
  1. 1

    masculinerappen (a unit of currency in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, equal to one-hundredth of a Swiss franc)

noun

as Rappen
  1. 1

    neuterrapping

noun

as Rappen
  1. 1

    plural of Rappe

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. als Rappenpfennig Hauptmünze im Oberrhein-Gebiet, der heutigen Nordschweiz und dem Elsass ab dem 13. Jahrhundert 2. schweizerische Kleinmünze

verb: 1. eine Art von Sprechgesang machen, der aus der Musikrichtung Hiphop entstand

verb: 1. raspeln

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 rappen

  • Rappens genitive
  • rappt present singular third-person
  • rappte past
  • gerappt participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • rappend participle present
  • rappe first-person indicative present
  • rappst indicative present second-person
  • rappest second-person singular subjunctive
  • rappet plural second-person subjunctive
  • rappten first-person indicative plural
  • rapptest indicative preterite second-person
  • rapptet indicative plural preterite
  • rapp imperative second-person singular
  • Rp abbreviation
  • rapp! imperative singular
  • rappt! imperative plural
  • gerappt haben active infinitive perfect

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to rappen

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is rappen in German?

rappen appears 1.8 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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