schwellen
German, verb
schwellen is spelled S-C-H-W-E-L-L-E-N (9 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written German, the 31,493rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schwellen is a German verb meaning “to swell up; to bulge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schwellen is a different word: “plural of Schwelle”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “größer, dicker werden; das Volumen vergrößern”.
What does schwellen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swell up; to bulge
verb
- 1
to swell something
noun
- 1
plural of Schwelle
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. größer, dicker werden; das Volumen vergrößern
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 schwellen
- schwillt present singular third-person
- schwoll past
- geschwollen participle past
- schwölle past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- 3 strong
- schwellend participle present
- schwelle first-person indicative present
- schwillst indicative present second-person
- schwellt indicative plural present
- schwellest second-person singular subjunctive
- schwellet plural second-person subjunctive
- schwollen first-person indicative plural
- schwöllen first-person formal plural
- schwollst indicative preterite second-person
- schwollt indicative plural preterite
- schwöllest formal rare second-person
- schwöllst formal rare second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schwellen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schwellen in German?
schwellen appears 1.4 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).