verleumden
German, verb
verleumden is spelled V-E-R-L-E-U-M-D-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 70,098th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verleumden is a German verb meaning “to libel, traduce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verleumden is a different word: “gerund of verleumden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine unwahre (oder nicht zu beweisende) Behauptung über etwas oder eine andere Person verbreiten, die dessen…”.
What does verleumden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to libel, traduce
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verleumden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine unwahre (oder nicht zu beweisende) Behauptung über etwas oder eine andere Person verbreiten, die dessen oder deren Ansehen schadet
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 verleumden
- verleumdet present singular third-person
- verleumdete past
- haben auxiliary
- verleumdend participle present
- verleumde first-person indicative present
- verleumdest indicative present second-person
- verleumdeten first-person indicative plural
- verleumdetest indicative preterite second-person
- verleumdetet indicative plural preterite
- verleumd imperative second-person singular
- habe verleumdet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verleumdet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verleumde! imperative singular
- verleumdet! imperative plural
- verleumdet haben active infinitive perfect
- verleumdet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- verleumdet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
- verleumdet sein statal-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verleumden
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verleumden in German?
verleumden 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).