entwirren
German, verb/ɛntˈvɪʁən/
entwirren is spelled E-N-T-W-I-R-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 75,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entwirren is a German verb meaning “to disentangle, to unravel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas, das sich verheddert, verknotet hat, wieder in seine einzelnen Bestandteile zerlegen”.
What does entwirren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disentangle, to unravel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas, das sich verheddert, verknotet hat, wieder in seine einzelnen Bestandteile zerlegen 2. eine unklare, undeutliche Situation/Information aufklären oder auch verständlich machen
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 entwirren
- entwirrt present singular third-person
- entwirrte past
- haben auxiliary
- entwirrend participle present
- entwirre first-person indicative present
- entwirrst indicative present second-person
- entwirrest second-person singular subjunctive
- entwirret plural second-person subjunctive
- entwirrten first-person indicative plural
- entwirrtest indicative preterite second-person
- entwirrtet indicative plural preterite
- entwirr imperative second-person singular
- habe entwirrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben entwirrt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- entwirr! imperative singular
- entwirre! imperative singular
- entwirrt! imperative plural
- entwirrt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce entwirren?
- /ɛntˈvɪʁən/
- [ɛntˈvɪʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to entwirren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is entwirren in German?
entwirren appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).