schlecken
German, verb/ˈʃlɛ.kən/
schlecken is spelled S-C-H-L-E-C-K-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 92,701st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schlecken is a German verb meaning “to lick, to lap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas unter Einsatz der Zunge genüsslich verspeisen”.
What does schlecken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lick, to lap
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas unter Einsatz der Zunge genüsslich verspeisen 2. Süßigkeiten naschen
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 schlecken
- schleckt present singular third-person
- schleckte past
- geschleckt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schleckend participle present
- schlecke first-person indicative present
- schleckst indicative present second-person
- schleckest second-person singular subjunctive
- schlecket plural second-person subjunctive
- schleckten first-person indicative plural
- schlecktest indicative preterite second-person
- schlecktet indicative plural preterite
- schleck imperative second-person singular
- habe geschleckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschleckt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schleck! imperative singular
- schleckt! imperative plural
- geschleckt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce schlecken?
- standard /ˈʃlɛ.kən/
- standard /ˈʃlɛ.kɛn/
- /ˈʃlɛ.ʔŋ̩/
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is schlecken in German?
schlecken appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).