anekeln
German, verb
anekeln is spelled A-N-E-K-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 78 million words in written German, the 549,996th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anekeln is a German verb meaning “to disgust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Anekeln is a different word: “gerund of anekeln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “bei jemandem Ekel erregen”.
What does anekeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disgust
noun
- 1
neutergerund of anekeln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. bei jemandem Ekel erregen
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 anekeln
- ekelt an present singular third-person
- ekelte an past
- angeekelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- anekelnd participle present
- anzuekeln infinitive infinitive-zu
- ekle an first-person indicative present
- ekele an first-person indicative present
- ekel an first-person indicative present
- ekeln an first-person indicative plural
- ekelst an indicative present second-person
- ekelest an second-person singular subjunctive
- eklest an second-person singular subjunctive
- ekelet an plural second-person subjunctive
- eklet an plural second-person subjunctive
- ekelten an first-person indicative plural
- ekeltest an indicative preterite second-person
- ekeltet an indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is anekeln in German?
anekeln appears about once in every 78 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).