Tupf
German, noun
Tupf is spelled T-U-P-F (4 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written German, the 458,101st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tupf is a German masculine noun meaning “Southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland form of Tupfen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, tupf is a different word: “singular imperative of tupfen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “kleiner Fleck”.
What does Tupf mean in English?
noun
- 1
AustriaSwitzerlandmasculineSouthern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland form of Tupfen
verb
- 1
singular imperative of tupfen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of tupfen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. kleiner Fleck
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 Tupf
- Tupfes genitive
- Tupfs genitive
- Tupfe plural
- Tüpfchen diminutive neuter
- Tupfen dative definite plural
- Tüpfel diminutive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Tupf in German?
Tupf appears about once in every 56 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).