missglücken
German, verb
missglücken is spelled M-I-S-S-G-L-Ü-C-K-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written German, the 391,488th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Missglücken is a German verb meaning “to fail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Missglücken is a different word: “gerund of missglücken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ohne Erfolg bleiben, schlecht ablaufen, nicht gelingen”.
What does missglücken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fail
Der erste Schuss missglückte ihr.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of missglücken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ohne Erfolg bleiben, schlecht ablaufen, nicht gelingen
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 missglücken
- missglückt present singular third-person
- missglückte past
- sein auxiliary
- missglückend participle present
- missglücke first-person indicative present
- missglückst indicative present second-person
- missglückest second-person singular subjunctive
- missglücket plural second-person subjunctive
- missglückten first-person indicative plural
- missglücktest indicative preterite second-person
- missglücktet indicative plural preterite
- missglück imperative second-person singular
- bin missglückt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- sind missglückt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- mißglücken obsolete
- missglücke! imperative singular
- missglückt! imperative plural
- missglückt sein active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to missglücken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is missglücken in German?
missglücken appears about once in every 43 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).