beschallen
German, verb
beschallen is spelled B-E-S-C-H-A-L-L-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 91,399th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beschallen is a German verb meaning “to make reverberating sound such as with loudspeakers in a large room or open space” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beschallen is a different word: “gerund of beschallen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(lauten) Tönen (Schall) aussetzen”.
What does beschallen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make reverberating sound such as with loudspeakers in a large room or open space
- 2
to treat or diagnose with ultrasound
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beschallen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (lauten) Tönen (Schall) aussetzen 2. eine Ultraschalluntersuchung vom Inneren eines Lebewesens durchführen; mit Ultraschallwellen behandeln 3. eine Untersuchung von Materialien/Werkstoffen mittels Ultraschall/Schall durchführen
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 beschallen
- beschallt present singular third-person
- beschallte past
- haben auxiliary
- beschallend participle present
- beschalle first-person indicative present
- beschallst indicative present second-person
- beschallest second-person singular subjunctive
- beschallet plural second-person subjunctive
- beschallten first-person indicative plural
- beschalltest indicative preterite second-person
- beschalltet indicative plural preterite
- beschall imperative second-person singular
- habe beschallt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben beschallt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beschall! imperative singular
- beschalle! imperative singular
- beschallt! imperative plural
- beschallt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is beschallen in German?
beschallen appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).