verachten
German, verb
verachten is spelled V-E-R-A-C-H-T-E-N (9 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written German, the 19,169th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verachten is a German verb meaning “to despise, to scorn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verachten is a different word: “gerund of verachten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas oder jemanden geringschätzen/verabscheuen”.
What does verachten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to despise, to scorn
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verachten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas oder jemanden geringschätzen/verabscheuen
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 verachten
- verachtet present singular third-person
- verachtete past
- haben auxiliary
- verachtend participle present
- verachte first-person indicative present
- verachtest indicative present second-person
- verachteten first-person indicative plural
- verachtetest indicative preterite second-person
- verachtetet indicative plural preterite
- veracht imperative second-person singular
- habe verachtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verachtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verachte! imperative singular
- verachtet! imperative plural
- verachtet haben active infinitive perfect
- verachtet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- verachtet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
- verachtet sein statal-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verachten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verachten in German?
verachten appears 2.8 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).