diskreditieren
German, verb
diskreditieren is spelled D-I-S-K-R-E-D-I-T-I-E-R-E-N (14 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 32,981st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diskreditieren is a German verb meaning “to discredit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Diskreditieren is a different word: “gerund of diskreditieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in Misskredit bringen, in Verruf bringen”.
What does diskreditieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to discredit
noun
- 1
neutergerund of diskreditieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. in Misskredit bringen, in Verruf bringen
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 diskreditieren
- diskreditiert present singular third-person
- diskreditierte past
- haben auxiliary
- diskreditierend participle present
- diskreditiere first-person indicative present
- diskreditierst indicative present second-person
- diskreditierest second-person singular subjunctive
- diskreditieret plural second-person subjunctive
- diskreditierten first-person indicative plural
- diskreditiertest indicative preterite second-person
- diskreditiertet indicative plural preterite
- diskreditier imperative second-person singular
- habe diskreditiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben diskreditiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- diskreditiere! imperative singular
- diskreditier! imperative singular
- diskreditiert! imperative plural
- diskreditiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to diskreditieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is diskreditieren in German?
diskreditieren appears 1.3 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).