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gehörnt

German, adjective[ɡəˈhœʁnt]

gehörnt is spelled G-E-H-Ö-R-N-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written German, the 285,944th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gehörnt is a German adjective meaning “horned” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Hörnern ausgestattet, Hörner tragend”.

What does gehörnt mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    horned

  2. 2

    cuckolded

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. mit Hörnern ausgestattet, Hörner tragend 2. sexuell betrogen (siehe auch die Redewendung „jemandem die Hörner aufsetzen“)

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 gehörnt

  • gehörnter masculine nominative singular
  • gehörnte feminine nominative singular
  • gehörntes neuter nominative singular
  • gehörnten genitive masculine singular
  • gehörntem dative masculine singular
  • der gehörnte definite includes-article masculine
  • die gehörnte definite feminine includes-article
  • das gehörnte definite includes-article neuter
  • die gehörnten definite includes-article nominative
  • des gehörnten definite genitive includes-article
  • der gehörnten definite feminine genitive
  • dem gehörnten dative definite includes-article
  • den gehörnten dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce gehörnt?

  • [ɡəˈhœʁnt]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to gehörnt

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is gehörnt in German?

gehörnt appears about once in every 25 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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