renken
German, verb
renken is spelled R-E-N-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 144,446th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Renken is a German verb meaning “to twist, to turn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Renken is a different word: “plural of Renke”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit leichten Drehungen hin- und herbewegen”.
What does renken mean in English?
verb
- 1
obsoleteto twist, to turn
noun
- 1
plural of Renke
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit leichten Drehungen hin- und herbewegen
noun: 1. Fisch aus der Gattung Coregonus
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 renken
- renkt present singular third-person
- renkte past
- gerenkt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- renkend participle present
- renke first-person indicative present
- renkst indicative present second-person
- renkest second-person singular subjunctive
- renket plural second-person subjunctive
- renkten first-person indicative plural
- renktest indicative preterite second-person
- renktet indicative plural preterite
- renk imperative second-person singular
- habe gerenkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gerenkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- renk! imperative singular
- renke! imperative singular
- renkt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to renken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is renken in German?
renken appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).