missbehagen
German, verb
missbehagen is spelled M-I-S-S-B-E-H-A-G-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written German, the 301,457th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Missbehagen is a German verb meaning “to be displeased at” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Missbehagen is a different word: “unease, uncomfortable feeling, uneasiness, discomfort, discomfiture”.
What does missbehagen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be displeased at
noun
- 1
neuterunease, uncomfortable feeling, uneasiness, discomfort, discomfiture
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of missbehagen
- missbehagt present singular third-person
- missbehagte past
- haben auxiliary
- missbehagend participle present
- missbehage first-person indicative present
- missbehagst indicative present second-person
- missbehagest second-person singular subjunctive
- missbehaget plural second-person subjunctive
- missbehagten first-person indicative plural
- missbehagtest indicative preterite second-person
- missbehagtet indicative plural preterite
- missbehag imperative second-person singular
- habe missbehagt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben missbehagt first-person indicative multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is missbehagen in German?
missbehagen appears about once in every 27 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).