schlitteln
German, verb
schlitteln is spelled S-C-H-L-I-T-T-E-L-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written German, the 571,872nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schlitteln is a German verb meaning “to sled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does schlitteln mean in English?
verb
- 1
Switzerlandto sled
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of schlitteln
- schlittelt present singular third-person
- schlittelte past
- geschlittelt participle past
- sein auxiliary
- schlittelnd participle present
- schlittle first-person indicative present
- schlittele first-person indicative present
- schlittel first-person indicative present
- schlittelst indicative present second-person
- schlittelest second-person singular subjunctive
- schlittlest second-person singular subjunctive
- schlittelet plural second-person subjunctive
- schlittlet plural second-person subjunctive
- schlittelten first-person indicative plural
- schlitteltest indicative preterite second-person
- schlitteltet indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is schlitteln in German?
schlitteln appears about once in every 83 million words in written German.
schlitteln0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Germanmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).