wichsen
German, verb
wichsen is spelled W-I-C-H-S-E-N (7 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written German, the 14,778th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wichsen is a German verb meaning “to wax, to polish (an object with a substance to make it shiny and/or clean)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wichsen is a different word: “gerund of wichsen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Leder mit Schuhcreme oder einem Lederfett einreiben (Schuhe oder Lederwaren)”.
What does wichsen mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto wax, to polish (an object with a substance to make it shiny and/or clean)
- 2
datedto beat, to hit, to pound
- 3
vulgarto masturbate, to wank, to toss off (to manually stimulate the penis)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of wichsen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Leder mit Schuhcreme oder einem Lederfett einreiben (Schuhe oder Lederwaren) 2. sich selbst befriedigen (meist als Mann), auch im übertragenen Sinne („geistige Onanie“) 3. prügeln 4. den Wichs anziehen (Kleiderordnung bei Studentenverbindungen), seinen besten Anzug anziehen
noun: 1. Selbstbefriedigung, Masturbation
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 wichsen
- wichst present singular third-person
- wichste past
- gewichst participle past
- haben auxiliary
- wichsend participle present
- wichse first-person indicative present
- wichsest second-person singular subjunctive
- wichset plural second-person subjunctive
- wichsten first-person indicative plural
- wichstest indicative preterite second-person
- wichstet indicative plural preterite
- wichs imperative second-person singular
- habe gewichst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gewichst first-person indicative multiword-construction
- wichse! imperative singular
- wichst! imperative plural
- gewichst haben active infinitive perfect
- gewichst werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to wichsen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is wichsen in German?
wichsen appears 3.9 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).