verkacken
German, verb
verkacken is spelled V-E-R-K-A-C-K-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 52,749th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verkacken is a German verb meaning “to fuck up, dick up, mess up, bungle, botch, fail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verkacken is a different word: “gerund of verkacken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Kot beschmutzen”.
What does verkacken mean in English?
verb
- 1
slangvulgarto fuck up, dick up, mess up, bungle, botch, fail
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verkacken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mit Kot beschmutzen 2. etwas nicht erfolgreich durchführen, etwas ausgesprochen schlecht machen
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 verkacken
- verkackt present singular third-person
- verkackte past
- haben auxiliary
- verkackend participle present
- verkacke first-person indicative present
- verkackst indicative present second-person
- verkackest second-person singular subjunctive
- verkacket plural second-person subjunctive
- verkackten first-person indicative plural
- verkacktest indicative preterite second-person
- verkacktet indicative plural preterite
- verkack imperative second-person singular
- habe verkackt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verkackt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verkack! imperative singular
- verkacke! imperative singular
- verkackt! imperative plural
- verkackt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is verkacken in German?
verkacken 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).