kolportieren
German, verb
kolportieren is spelled K-O-L-P-O-R-T-I-E-R-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written German, the 297,534th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kolportieren is a German verb meaning “to spread (news, information, gossip, etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Kolportieren is a different word: “gerund of kolportieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gerüchte verbreiten”.
What does kolportieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to spread (news, information, gossip, etc.)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of kolportieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Gerüchte verbreiten 2. von Haus zu Haus gehen und Waren feilbieten
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 kolportieren
- kolportiert present singular third-person
- kolportierte past
- haben auxiliary
- kolportierend participle present
- kolportiere first-person indicative present
- kolportierst indicative present second-person
- kolportierest second-person singular subjunctive
- kolportieret plural second-person subjunctive
- kolportierten first-person indicative plural
- kolportiertest indicative preterite second-person
- kolportiertet indicative plural preterite
- kolportier imperative second-person singular
- habe kolportiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben kolportiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- kolportiere! imperative singular
- kolportier! imperative singular
- kolportiert! imperative plural
- kolportiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is kolportieren in German?
kolportieren appears about once in every 26 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).