Verfall
German, noun
Verfall is spelled V-E-R-F-A-L-L (7 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written German, the 12,686th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verfall is a German masculine noun meaning “decay, deterioration, decline” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, verfall is a different word: “singular imperative of verfallen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “allmähliche Zerstörung von Gebäuden oder Gegenständen (aufgrund des Alters, mangelnder Pflege, …)”.
What does Verfall mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedecay, deterioration, decline
- 2
masculinedecadence
verb
- 1
singular imperative of verfallen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. allmähliche Zerstörung von Gebäuden oder Gegenständen (aufgrund des Alters, mangelnder Pflege, …) 2. Wertminderung oder Verlust des Wertes einer Sache (zum Beispiel Währung, Gutschein, Patent, Preise, …) 3. Verlust von Einfluss und Geltung (von Staaten, politischen Systemen, Kultur, Sitten) 4. Verlust von körperlicher, geistiger oder seelischer Kraft (eines Menschen)
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 Verfall
- Verfalles genitive
- Verfalls genitive
- Verfälle plural
- Verfalle dative singular
- Verfällen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Verfall
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Verfall in German?
Verfall appears 4.8 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).