freveln
German, verb
freveln is spelled F-R-E-V-E-L-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written German, the 535,730th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Freveln is a German verb meaning “to commit an outrage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Freveln is a different word: “dative plural of Frevel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Frevel begehen; eine unrechte Tat ausüben; etwas machen, was nicht erlaubt ist oder als unmoralisch…”.
What does freveln mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto commit an outrage
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Frevel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Frevel begehen; eine unrechte Tat ausüben; etwas machen, was nicht erlaubt ist oder als unmoralisch angesehen wird
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 freveln
- frevelt present singular third-person
- frevelte past
- gefrevelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- frevelnd participle present
- frevle first-person indicative present
- frevele first-person indicative present
- frevel first-person indicative present
- frevelst indicative present second-person
- frevelest second-person singular subjunctive
- frevlest second-person singular subjunctive
- frevelet plural second-person subjunctive
- frevlet plural second-person subjunctive
- frevelten first-person indicative plural
- freveltest indicative preterite second-person
- freveltet indicative plural preterite
- frevle! imperative singular
- frevele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is freveln in German?
freveln appears about once in every 74 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).