verlocken
German, verb
verlocken is spelled V-E-R-L-O-C-K-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 118,498th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verlocken is a German verb meaning “to entice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verlocken is a different word: “gerund of verlocken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einen Reiz ausstrahlen (locken), etwas Bestimmtes zu tun”.
What does verlocken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to entice
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verlocken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. einen Reiz ausstrahlen (locken), etwas Bestimmtes zu tun
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 verlocken
- verlockt present singular third-person
- verlockte past
- haben auxiliary
- verlockend participle present
- verlocke first-person indicative present
- verlockst indicative present second-person
- verlockest second-person singular subjunctive
- verlocket plural second-person subjunctive
- verlockten first-person indicative plural
- verlocktest indicative preterite second-person
- verlocktet indicative plural preterite
- verlock imperative second-person singular
- habe verlockt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verlockt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verlock! imperative singular
- verlocke! imperative singular
- verlockt! imperative plural
- verlockt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verlocken
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verlocken in German?
verlocken appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).