speien
German, verb/ˈʃpaɪ̯ən/
speien is spelled S-P-E-I-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 98,214th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Speien is a German verb meaning “to spit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “spucken”.
What does speien mean in English?
verb
- 1
to spit
- 2
to vomit
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. spucken 2. sich übergeben
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 speien
- speit present singular third-person
- spie past
- gespien participle past
- haben auxiliary
- 1 strong
- speiend participle present
- speie first-person indicative present
- speist indicative present second-person
- speiest second-person singular subjunctive
- speiet plural second-person subjunctive
- spien first-person indicative plural
- spiest indicative preterite second-person
- spiet indicative plural preterite
- spei imperative second-person singular
- habe gespien first-person indicative multiword-construction
- speie! imperative singular
- spei! imperative singular
- speit! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce speien?
- /ˈʃpaɪ̯ən/
- [ˈʃpaɪ̯ən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to speien
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is speien in German?
speien 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).