stauchen
German, verb[ˈʃtaʊ̯xn̩]
stauchen is spelled S-T-A-U-C-H-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written German, the 214,094th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stauchen is a German verb meaning “to compress (with deformation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit einem Stempel, durch Krafteinwirkung, verformen (zum Beispiel eine Öse, Niete oder Bolzen)”.
What does stauchen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to compress (with deformation)
- 2
to upset; to perform a forming operation that increases a workpiece's diameter by decreasing its length.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit einem Stempel, durch Krafteinwirkung, verformen (zum Beispiel eine Öse, Niete oder Bolzen) 2. ein Gelenk verstauchen 3. jemanden durch Worte derb zurechtweisen 4. ein Getränk kurz in warmes Wasser legen, um es leicht zu erwärmen
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 stauchen
- staucht present singular third-person
- stauchte past
- gestaucht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- stauchend participle present
- stauche first-person indicative present
- stauchst indicative present second-person
- stauchest second-person singular subjunctive
- stauchet plural second-person subjunctive
- stauchten first-person indicative plural
- stauchtest indicative preterite second-person
- stauchtet indicative plural preterite
- stauch imperative second-person singular
- habe gestaucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gestaucht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- stauch! imperative singular
- stauche! imperative singular
- staucht! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce stauchen?
- [ˈʃtaʊ̯xn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is stauchen in German?
stauchen appears about once in every 15 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).