überspitzen
German, verb
überspitzen is spelled Ü-B-E-R-S-P-I-T-Z-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written German, the 321,814th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Überspitzen is a German verb meaning “to exaggerate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Überspitzen is a different word: “gerund of überspitzen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas übertrieben vertreten oder verzerrt darstellen”.
What does überspitzen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exaggerate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of überspitzen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas übertrieben vertreten oder verzerrt darstellen
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 überspitzen
- überspitzt present singular third-person
- überspitzte past
- haben auxiliary
- überspitzend participle present
- überspitze first-person indicative present
- überspitzest second-person singular subjunctive
- überspitzet plural second-person subjunctive
- überspitzten first-person indicative plural
- überspitztest indicative preterite second-person
- überspitztet indicative plural preterite
- überspitz imperative second-person singular
- habe überspitzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben überspitzt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- überspitz! imperative singular
- überspitze! imperative singular
- überspitzt! imperative plural
- überspitzt haben active infinitive perfect
- überspitzt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is überspitzen in German?
überspitzen appears about once in every 30 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).