zurückzucken
German, verb/t͡suˈʁʏkˌt͡sʊkn̩/
zurückzucken is spelled Z-U-R-Ü-C-K-Z-U-C-K-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written German, the 458,101st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zurückzucken is a German verb meaning “to recoil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “vor Schreck zusammenzucken und ruckartig zurückweichen”.
What does zurückzucken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to recoil
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. vor Schreck zusammenzucken und ruckartig zurückweichen
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 zurückzucken
- zuckt zurück present singular third-person
- zuckte zurück past
- zurückgezuckt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- zurückzuckend participle present
- zurückzuzucken infinitive infinitive-zu
- zucke zurück first-person indicative present
- zucken zurück first-person indicative plural
- zuckst zurück indicative present second-person
- zuckest zurück second-person singular subjunctive
- zucket zurück plural second-person subjunctive
- zuckten zurück first-person indicative plural
- zucktest zurück indicative preterite second-person
- zucktet zurück indicative plural preterite
- zuck zurück! imperative singular
- zucke zurück! imperative singular
- zuckt zurück! imperative plural
- sein auxiliary perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce zurückzucken?
- /t͡suˈʁʏkˌt͡sʊkn̩/
- [t͡suˈʁʏkˌt͡sʊkn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to zurückzucken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zurückzucken in German?
zurückzucken appears about once in every 56 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).