verbesserungswürdig
German, adjective/fɛɐ̯ˈbɛsəʁʊŋsˌvʏʁdɪç/
verbesserungswürdig is spelled V-E-R-B-E-S-S-E-R-U-N-G-S-W-Ü-R-D-I-G (19 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 61,377th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verbesserungswürdig is a German adjective meaning “improvable, suboptimal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht optimal, Raum zur Verbesserung lassend”.
What does verbesserungswürdig mean in English?
adjective
- 1
improvable, suboptimal
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. nicht optimal, Raum zur Verbesserung lassend
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 verbesserungswürdig
- verbesserungswürdiger masculine nominative singular
- am verbesserungswürdigsten superlative
- verbesserungswürdige feminine nominative singular
- verbesserungswürdiges neuter nominative singular
- verbesserungswürdigen genitive masculine singular
- verbesserungswürdigem dative masculine singular
- der verbesserungswürdige definite includes-article masculine
- die verbesserungswürdige definite feminine includes-article
- das verbesserungswürdige definite includes-article neuter
- die verbesserungswürdigen definite includes-article nominative
- des verbesserungswürdigen definite genitive includes-article
- der verbesserungswürdigen definite feminine genitive
- dem verbesserungswürdigen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce verbesserungswürdig?
- /fɛɐ̯ˈbɛsəʁʊŋsˌvʏʁdɪç/
- [fɛɐ̯ˈbɛsəʁʊŋsˌvʏʁdɪç]
- [fɛɐ̯ˈbɛsəʁʊŋsˌvʏʁdɪk]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is verbesserungswürdig in German?
verbesserungswürdig appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).