welken
German, verb
welken is spelled W-E-L-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 77,779th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Welken is a German verb meaning “to wither” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Welken is a different word: “gerund of welken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht mehr blühen, vertrocknen, welk werden”.
What does welken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wither
noun
- 1
neutergerund of welken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. nicht mehr blühen, vertrocknen, welk werden 2. vergehen, sterben, verschwinden
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 welken
- welkt present singular third-person
- welkte past
- gewelkt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- welkend participle present
- welke first-person indicative present
- welkst indicative present second-person
- welkest second-person singular subjunctive
- welket plural second-person subjunctive
- welkten first-person indicative plural
- welktest indicative preterite second-person
- welktet indicative plural preterite
- welk imperative second-person singular
- habe gewelkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gewelkt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- welke! imperative singular
- welket! imperative plural
- gewelkt sein active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to welken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is welken in German?
welken appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).