durcheinander
German, adjective
durcheinander is spelled D-U-R-C-H-E-I-N-A-N-D-E-R (13 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,647th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Durcheinander is a German adjective meaning “disordered, confused” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Durcheinander is a different word: “mess, chaos, tumult”.
What does durcheinander mean in English?
adjective
- 1
disordered, confused
noun
- 1
neutermess, chaos, tumult
- 2
neuterstew
prefix
- 1
a prefix denoting disorder or confusion
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nebeneinander unkoordinierter Prozesse 2. Zustand der Unordnung, wo Dinge wahllos nebeneinander stehen/liegen
adverb: 1. nicht geordnet, in Unordnung 2. verwirrt, (vorübergehend) unfähig klare Gedanken zu fassen
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 durcheinander
- Durcheinanders genitive
- Durcheinandern dative definite plural
- durcheinanderer masculine nominative singular
- am durcheinandersten superlative
- durcheinandere feminine nominative singular
- durcheinanderes neuter nominative singular
- durcheinanderen genitive masculine singular
- durcheinanderem dative masculine singular
- der durcheinandere definite includes-article masculine
- die durcheinandere definite feminine includes-article
- das durcheinandere definite includes-article neuter
- die durcheinanderen definite includes-article nominative
- des durcheinanderen definite genitive includes-article
- der durcheinanderen definite feminine genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to durcheinander
- mess
- confused
- chaos
- confusion
- disruption
- hash
- havoc
- clutter
- dazed
- shambles
- disordered
- confounded
- jumble
- haywire
- hubbub
- welter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is durcheinander in German?
durcheinander appears 11 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).