toupieren
German, verb
toupieren is spelled T-O-U-P-I-E-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written German, the 440,316th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Toupieren is a German verb meaning “to backcomb, to tease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Toupieren is a different word: “gerund of toupieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Haare aufrichten oder aufbauschen, indem diese in Strähnen mit kurzen Bewegungen zum Haaransatz hin gekämmt…”.
What does toupieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to backcomb, to tease
noun
- 1
neutergerund of toupieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Haare aufrichten oder aufbauschen, indem diese in Strähnen mit kurzen Bewegungen zum Haaransatz hin gekämmt werden
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 toupieren
- toupiert present singular third-person
- toupierte past
- haben auxiliary
- toupierend participle present
- toupiere first-person indicative present
- toupierst indicative present second-person
- toupierest second-person singular subjunctive
- toupieret plural second-person subjunctive
- toupierten first-person indicative plural
- toupiertest indicative preterite second-person
- toupiertet indicative plural preterite
- toupier imperative second-person singular
- habe toupiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben toupiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- toupiere! imperative singular
- toupier! imperative singular
- toupiert! imperative plural
- toupiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to toupieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is toupieren in German?
toupieren appears about once in every 52 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).