stopfen
German, verb
stopfen is spelled S-T-O-P-F-E-N (7 letters) and appears 3.3 times per million words in written German, the 16,674th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stopfen is a German verb meaning “to stuff, to plug” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Stopfen is a different word: “plug, stopper, stopple”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas Verformbares irgendwo hineindrücken”.
What does stopfen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stuff, to plug
- 2
to darn (mend by sewing over)
Socken stopfen
noun
- 1
masculineplug, stopper, stopple
noun
- 1
neutergerund of stopfen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas Verformbares irgendwo hineindrücken 2. einen Schaden an einem Kleidungsstück mit Faden und Nadel ausbessern, so dass eine Art Gewebe entsteht 3. den Stuhlgang erschwerend 4. das Schießen, Feuern einstellen
noun: 1. kurzzeitiger oder dauerhafter Verschluss einer kleinen Öffnung
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 stopfen
- stopft present singular third-person
- stopfte past
- gestopft participle past
- haben auxiliary
- stopfend participle present
- stopfe first-person indicative present
- stopfst indicative present second-person
- stopfest second-person singular subjunctive
- stopfet plural second-person subjunctive
- stopften first-person indicative plural
- stopftest indicative preterite second-person
- stopftet indicative plural preterite
- stopf imperative second-person singular
- habe gestopft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gestopft first-person indicative multiword-construction
- stopfe! imperative singular
- stopft! imperative plural
- gestopft haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to stopfen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is stopfen in German?
stopfen appears 3.3 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).