destillieren
German, verb
destillieren is spelled D-E-S-T-I-L-L-I-E-R-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 108,721st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Destillieren is a German verb meaning “to distil (subject a substance to distillation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Destillieren is a different word: “gerund of destillieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Flüssigkeiten durch Verdampfen und Kondensieren trennen”.
What does destillieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to distil (subject a substance to distillation)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of destillieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Flüssigkeiten durch Verdampfen und Kondensieren trennen
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 destillieren
- destilliert present singular third-person
- destillierte past
- haben auxiliary
- destillierend participle present
- destilliere first-person indicative present
- destillierst indicative present second-person
- destillierest second-person singular subjunctive
- destillieret plural second-person subjunctive
- destillierten first-person indicative plural
- destilliertest indicative preterite second-person
- destilliertet indicative plural preterite
- destillier imperative second-person singular
- habe destilliert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben destilliert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- dest. abbreviation
- destilliere! imperative singular
- destillier! imperative singular
- destilliert! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to destillieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is destillieren in German?
destillieren appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).