beichten
German, verb
beichten is spelled B-E-I-C-H-T-E-N (8 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written German, the 39,278th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beichten is a German verb meaning “to confess (sins)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beichten is a different word: “gerund of beichten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “seine Sünden und Vergehen einem Geistlichen erzählen; seine Sünden bekennen”.
What does beichten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to confess (sins)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beichten
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Beichte
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. seine Sünden und Vergehen einem Geistlichen erzählen; seine Sünden bekennen 2. jemandem von selbstverschuldeten, meist schlechten Taten berichten
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 beichten
- beichtet present singular third-person
- beichtete past
- gebeichtet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- beichtend participle present
- beichte first-person indicative present
- beichtest indicative present second-person
- beichteten first-person indicative plural
- beichtetest indicative preterite second-person
- beichtetet indicative plural preterite
- beicht imperative second-person singular
- habe gebeichtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gebeichtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beichte! imperative singular
- beichtet! imperative plural
- gebeichtet haben active infinitive perfect
- gebeichtet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- gebeichtet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beichten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beichten in German?
beichten appears 1.0 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).