Missgriff
German, noun/ˈmɪsɡʁɪf/
Missgriff is spelled M-I-S-S-G-R-I-F-F (9 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written German, the 219,861st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Missgriff is a German masculine noun meaning “blunder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Aktion, die sich als missglückt erweist”.
What does Missgriff mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineblunder
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Aktion, die sich als missglückt erweist
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 Missgriff
- Missgriffes genitive
- Missgriffs genitive
- Missgriffe plural
- Missgriffen dative definite plural
- Mißgriff alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Missgriff?
- /ˈmɪsɡʁɪf/
- [ˈmɪsˌɡʁɪf]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Missgriff in German?
Missgriff appears about once in every 15 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).