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skalpieren

German, verb/skalˈpiːʁən/

skalpieren is spelled S-K-A-L-P-I-E-R-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written German, the 386,396th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Skalpieren is a German verb meaning “to scalp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem die Kopfschwarte entfernen”.

What does skalpieren mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to scalp

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. jemandem die Kopfschwarte entfernen

noun: 1. Entfernen der Kopfschwarte

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 skalpieren

  • skalpiert present singular third-person
  • skalpierte past
  • haben auxiliary
  • skalpierend participle present
  • skalpiere first-person indicative present
  • skalpierst indicative present second-person
  • skalpierest second-person singular subjunctive
  • skalpieret plural second-person subjunctive
  • skalpierten first-person indicative plural
  • skalpiertest indicative preterite second-person
  • skalpiertet indicative plural preterite
  • skalpier imperative second-person singular
  • habe skalpiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • haben skalpiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
  • skalpiere! imperative singular
  • skalpier! imperative singular
  • skalpiert! imperative plural
  • skalpiert haben active infinitive perfect

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce skalpieren?

  • /skalˈpiːʁən/
  • /skalˈpiːɐ̯n/
  • [skalˈpiːʁən]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is skalpieren in German?

skalpieren appears about once in every 42 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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