zocken
German, verb
zocken is spelled Z-O-C-K-E-N (6 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written German, the 7,736th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zocken is a German verb meaning “to gamble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zocken is a different word: “gerund of zocken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Glücksspiele machen; um Geld spielen”.
What does zocken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gamble
- 2
to play video games (sometimes extended to card games)
Ich habe damals ziemlich intensiv WoW gezockt.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of zocken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Glücksspiele machen; um Geld spielen 2. riskante Börsengeschäfte betreiben 3. hartnäckig, kleinlich (um etwas) handeln, verhandeln 4. (vor allem bei Glücksspielen) risikofreudig agieren
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 zocken
- zockt present singular third-person
- zockte past
- gezockt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- zockend participle present
- zocke first-person indicative present
- zockst indicative present second-person
- zockest second-person singular subjunctive
- zocket plural second-person subjunctive
- zockten first-person indicative plural
- zocktest indicative preterite second-person
- zocktet indicative plural preterite
- zock imperative second-person singular
- habe gezockt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gezockt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zocke! imperative singular
- zockt! imperative plural
- gezockt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zocken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zocken in German?
zocken appears 8.9 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).