verhütten
German, verb
verhütten is spelled V-E-R-H-Ü-T-T-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written German, the 434,655th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verhütten is a German verb meaning “to smelt (ore to retrieve the metal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verhütten is a different word: “gerund of verhütten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Erz (in einem Hüttenwerk) zu Metall verarbeiten”.
What does verhütten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to smelt (ore to retrieve the metal)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verhütten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Erz (in einem Hüttenwerk) zu Metall verarbeiten
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 verhütten
- verhüttet present singular third-person
- verhüttete past
- haben auxiliary
- verhüttend participle present
- verhütte first-person indicative present
- verhüttest indicative present second-person
- verhütteten first-person indicative plural
- verhüttetest indicative preterite second-person
- verhüttetet indicative plural preterite
- verhütt imperative second-person singular
- habe verhüttet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verhüttet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verhütt! imperative singular
- verhütte! imperative singular
- verhüttet! imperative plural
- verhüttet haben active infinitive perfect
- verhüttet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- verhüttet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verhütten in German?
verhütten appears about once in every 51 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).