verbittern
[fɛɐ̯ˈbɪtɐn]
The verdict
“verbittern” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zunehmend mehr die Freude/Lebensfreude nehmen, so dass man nicht mehr fröhlich und unbeschwert sein kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-verbittern · verbittern · German
verbittern · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verbittern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈbɪtɐn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „verbittern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
verbittern is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [fɛɐ̯ˈbɪtɐn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for verbittern, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is verbittern, spelled V-E-R-B-I-T-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1zunehmend mehr die Freude/Lebensfreude nehmen, so dass man nicht mehr fröhlich und unbeschwert sein kann
- 2zunehmend mehr die Freude/Lebensfreude verlieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verbittern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die vielen Enttäuschungen haben sie verbittert.
„Die Glossalgieen sowohl, wie die Schmerzen, die vom Alveolaris inf. ausgehen, können sehr heftig sein und dem Betroffenen das Dasein verbittern.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.