wuscheln
German, verb
wuscheln is spelled W-U-S-C-H-E-L-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written German, the 396,524th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wuscheln is a German verb meaning “to tousle (e.g. hair)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wuscheln is a different word: “gerund of wuscheln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “so mit der Hand durch die Haare fahren, dass diese aneinander gerieben werden”.
What does wuscheln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tousle (e.g. hair)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of wuscheln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. so mit der Hand durch die Haare fahren, dass diese aneinander gerieben werden
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 wuscheln
- wuschelt present singular third-person
- wuschelte past
- gewuschelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- wuschelnd participle present
- wuschle first-person indicative present
- wuschele first-person indicative present
- wuschel first-person indicative present
- wuschelst indicative present second-person
- wuschelest second-person singular subjunctive
- wuschlest second-person singular subjunctive
- wuschelet plural second-person subjunctive
- wuschlet plural second-person subjunctive
- wuschelten first-person indicative plural
- wuscheltest indicative preterite second-person
- wuscheltet indicative plural preterite
- wuschel! imperative singular
- wuschle! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is wuscheln in German?
wuscheln appears about once in every 44 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).