spicken
German, verb[ˈʃpɪkn̩]
spicken is spelled S-P-I-C-K-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 107,140th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spicken is a German verb meaning “to stuff meat with bacon, to lard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “auf eine bestimmte Weise mit Speck versehen”.
What does spicken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stuff meat with bacon, to lard
- 2
to adorn something profusely
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- 3
colloquialto cheat (on schoolwork) by copying
- 4
colloquialto bribe
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. auf eine bestimmte Weise mit Speck versehen 2. etwas ausstatten 3. (bei einer Prüfung oder Ähnlichem) von einem anderen oder etwas abschreiben, abgucken 4. jemanden bestechen
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 spicken
- spickt present singular third-person
- spickte past
- gespickt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- spickend participle present
- spicke first-person indicative present
- spickst indicative present second-person
- spickest second-person singular subjunctive
- spicket plural second-person subjunctive
- spickten first-person indicative plural
- spicktest indicative preterite second-person
- spicktet indicative plural preterite
- spick imperative second-person singular
- habe gespickt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gespickt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- spicke! imperative singular
- spick! imperative singular
- spickt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce spicken?
- [ˈʃpɪkn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is spicken in German?
spicken appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).