spritzen
German, verb
spritzen is spelled S-P-R-I-T-Z-E-N (8 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written German, the 9,010th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spritzen is a German verb meaning “to spurt, to squirt, to splash, to spatter, to spray” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Spritzen is a different word: “plural of Spritze”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Flüssigkeit durch die Luft schleudern”.
What does spritzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to spurt, to squirt, to splash, to spatter, to spray
- 2
to inject
- 3
vulgarto spunk, to ejaculate
- 4
to spray with pesticide
noun
- 1
plural of Spritze
noun
- 1
neutergerund of spritzen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Flüssigkeit durch die Luft schleudern 2. etwas verteilt sich mit feinen Tropfen, etwas erzeugt Spritzer 3. Pflanzen mit Chemikalien gegen Schädlinge behandeln 4. mit einer Spritze ein Medikament oder ein Rauschmittel verabreichen
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 spritzen
- spritzt present singular third-person
- spritzte past
- gespritzt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- spritzend participle present
- spritze first-person indicative present
- spritzest second-person singular subjunctive
- spritzet plural second-person subjunctive
- spritzten first-person indicative plural
- spritztest indicative preterite second-person
- spritztet indicative plural preterite
- spritz imperative second-person singular
- habe gespritzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gespritzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- spritz! imperative singular
- spritze! imperative singular
- spritzt! imperative plural
- gespritzt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to spritzen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is spritzen in German?
spritzen appears 7.4 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).