tuten
German, verb
tuten is spelled T-U-T-E-N (5 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written German, the 16,945th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tuten is a German verb meaning “to honk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Tüten is a different word: “plural of Tüte”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “das dunkle Geräusch eines Signalhorns oder einer Hupe von sich geben”.
What does tuten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to honk
noun
- 1
plural of Tüte
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. das dunkle Geräusch eines Signalhorns oder einer Hupe von sich geben 2. ein Geräusch mit einem Horn oder einer Hupe produzieren, diesen Laut ertönen lassen
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 tuten
- tutet present singular third-person
- tutete past
- getutet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- tutend participle present
- tute first-person indicative present
- tutest indicative present second-person
- tuteten first-person indicative plural
- tutetest indicative preterite second-person
- tutetet indicative plural preterite
- tut imperative second-person singular
- habe getutet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben getutet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- tut! imperative singular
- tute! imperative singular
- tutet! imperative plural
- getutet haben active infinitive perfect
- zu tuten active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tuten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tuten in German?
tuten appears 3.2 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).