misstrauen
German, verb
misstrauen is spelled M-I-S-S-T-R-A-U-E-N (10 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written German, the 10,826th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Misstrauen is a German verb meaning “to mistrust, to suspect, distrust, have doubts about” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Misstrauen is a different word: “gerund of misstrauen; mistrust”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zu einem Menschen oder einer Sache kein Vertrauen haben”.
What does misstrauen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mistrust, to suspect, distrust, have doubts about
noun
- 1
neutergerund of misstrauen; mistrust
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. zu einem Menschen oder einer Sache kein Vertrauen haben
noun: 1. Zweifel gegenüber einer Person oder einem Sachverhalt
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 misstrauen
- misstraut present singular third-person
- misstraute past
- haben auxiliary
- misstrauend participle present
- misstraue first-person indicative present
- misstraust indicative present second-person
- misstrauest second-person singular subjunctive
- misstrauet plural second-person subjunctive
- misstrauten first-person indicative plural
- misstrautest indicative preterite second-person
- misstrautet indicative plural preterite
- misstrau imperative second-person singular
- habe misstraut first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben misstraut first-person indicative multiword-construction
- mißtrauen obsolete
- misstraue! imperative singular
- misstraut! imperative plural
- misstraut haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to misstrauen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is misstrauen in German?
misstrauen appears 5.9 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).