gescheitert
German, adjective/ɡəˈʃaɪ̯tɐt/
gescheitert is spelled G-E-S-C-H-E-I-T-E-R-T (11 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,583rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gescheitert is a German adjective meaning “failed, aborted, unsuccessful, abortive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of scheitern. The German Wiktionary defines it as “erfolglos geblieben, etwas nicht verwirklicht, ein Ziel nicht erreicht”.
What does gescheitert mean in English?
adjective
- 1
failed, aborted, unsuccessful, abortive
verb
- 1
past participle of scheitern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. erfolglos geblieben, etwas nicht verwirklicht, ein Ziel nicht erreicht
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 gescheitert
- gescheiterter masculine nominative singular
- gescheiterte feminine nominative singular
- gescheitertes neuter nominative singular
- gescheiterten genitive masculine singular
- gescheitertem dative masculine singular
- der gescheiterte definite includes-article masculine
- die gescheiterte definite feminine includes-article
- das gescheiterte definite includes-article neuter
- die gescheiterten definite includes-article nominative
- des gescheiterten definite genitive includes-article
- der gescheiterten definite feminine genitive
- dem gescheiterten dative definite includes-article
- den gescheiterten dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gescheitert?
- /ɡəˈʃaɪ̯tɐt/
- [ɡəˈʃaɪ̯tɐt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gescheitert in German?
gescheitert appears 13 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).