verfehlen
German, verb
verfehlen is spelled V-E-R-F-E-H-L-E-N (9 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written German, the 25,938th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verfehlen is a German verb meaning “to miss, to meet or hit not” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verfehlen is a different word: “gerund of verfehlen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Ziel nicht treffen, nicht erreichen”.
What does verfehlen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to miss, to meet or hit not
- 2
archaicto misdo, to fail compliance
- 3
obsoleteto rape, to swive without consent
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verfehlen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ein Ziel nicht treffen, nicht erreichen
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 verfehlen
- verfehlt present singular third-person
- verfehlte past
- haben auxiliary
- verfehlend participle present
- verfehle first-person indicative present
- verfehlst indicative present second-person
- verfehlest second-person singular subjunctive
- verfehlet plural second-person subjunctive
- verfehlten first-person indicative plural
- verfehltest indicative preterite second-person
- verfehltet indicative plural preterite
- verfehl imperative second-person singular
- habe verfehlt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verfehlt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verfehl! imperative singular
- verfehlt! imperative plural
- verfehlt haben active infinitive perfect
- verfehlt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verfehlen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verfehlen in German?
verfehlen appears 1.8 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).