riegeln
German, verb
riegeln is spelled R-I-E-G-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 83,766th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Riegeln is a German verb meaning “to bolt (a door)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Riegeln is a different word: “dative plural of Riegel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Verschlussmechanismus (Riegel) betätigen”.
What does riegeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto bolt (a door)
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Riegel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Verschlussmechanismus (Riegel) betätigen 2. stark mit dem Zügel arbeiten, um ein Pferd in die vom Reiter angedachte Haltung zu zwingen
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 riegeln
- riegelt present singular third-person
- riegelte past
- geriegelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- riegelnd participle present
- riegle first-person indicative present
- riegele first-person indicative present
- riegel first-person indicative present
- riegelst indicative present second-person
- riegelest second-person singular subjunctive
- rieglest second-person singular subjunctive
- riegelet plural second-person subjunctive
- rieglet plural second-person subjunctive
- riegelten first-person indicative plural
- riegeltest indicative preterite second-person
- riegeltet indicative plural preterite
- riegel! imperative singular
- riegle! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is riegeln in German?
riegeln appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).