wiegeln
German, verb
wiegeln is spelled W-I-E-G-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written German, the 339,062nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wiegeln is a German verb meaning “to rock, sway in a crib” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wiegeln is a different word: “gerund of wiegeln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sanft in einer Wiege wiegen”.
What does wiegeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rock, sway in a crib
- 2
archaicto agitate, incite
noun
- 1
neutergerund of wiegeln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sanft in einer Wiege wiegen 2. zu Taten bewegen (aufwiegeln)
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 wiegeln
- wiegelt present singular third-person
- wiegelte past
- gewiegelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- wiegelnd participle present
- wiegle first-person indicative present
- wiegele first-person indicative present
- wiegel first-person indicative present
- wiegelst indicative present second-person
- wiegelest second-person singular subjunctive
- wieglest second-person singular subjunctive
- wiegelet plural second-person subjunctive
- wieglet plural second-person subjunctive
- wiegelten first-person indicative plural
- wiegeltest indicative preterite second-person
- wiegeltet indicative plural preterite
- wiegel! imperative singular
- wiegle! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is wiegeln in German?
wiegeln appears about once in every 33 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).