spuken
German, verb
spuken is spelled S-P-U-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 94,067th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spuken is a German verb meaning “to haunt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Spuken is a different word: “dative plural of Spuk”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “als Geist auf Erden wandeln und Unheil verbreiten, als Gespenst erscheinen”.
What does spuken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to haunt
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Spuk
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. als Geist auf Erden wandeln und Unheil verbreiten, als Gespenst erscheinen 2. „es spukt“: nicht mit rechten Dingen zugehen, es gibt (dort) Geister
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 spuken
- spukt present singular third-person
- spukte past
- gespukt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- spukend participle present
- spuke first-person indicative present
- spukst indicative present second-person
- spukest second-person singular subjunctive
- spuket plural second-person subjunctive
- spukten first-person indicative plural
- spuktest indicative preterite second-person
- spuktet indicative plural preterite
- spuk imperative second-person singular
- habe gespukt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gespukt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- spuk! imperative singular
- spuke! imperative singular
- spukt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is spuken in German?
spuken 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).