missraten
German, verb
missraten is spelled M-I-S-S-R-A-T-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 144,446th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Missraten is a German verb meaning “to turn out bad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of missraten: failed, abortive (if of children, badly raised). With a capital, Missraten is a different word: “gerund of missraten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht gelingen”.
What does missraten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to turn out bad
adjective
- 1
past participle of missraten: failed, abortive (if of children, badly raised)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of missraten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. 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 missraten
- missrät present singular third-person
- missriet past
- sein auxiliary
- 7 strong
- missratend participle present
- missrate first-person indicative present
- missrätst indicative present second-person
- missratet indicative plural present
- missratest second-person singular subjunctive
- missrieten first-person indicative plural
- missriete first-person formal rare
- missrietest indicative preterite second-person
- missrietst indicative preterite second-person
- missrietet indicative plural preterite
- missrat imperative second-person singular
- bin missraten first-person indicative multiword-construction
- mißraten obsolete
- missrate! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is missraten in German?
missraten appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).