vermummen
German, verb
vermummen is spelled V-E-R-M-U-M-M-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 140,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vermummen is a German verb meaning “to hide one’s face, disguise oneself” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Vermummen is a different word: “gerund of vermummen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “viele warme Kleidungsstücke anziehen, so dass wenig Haut zu sehen ist (die kalt werden kann)”.
What does vermummen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hide one’s face, disguise oneself
noun
- 1
neutergerund of vermummen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. viele warme Kleidungsstücke anziehen, so dass wenig Haut zu sehen ist (die kalt werden kann) 2. gerade auch das Gesicht bedeckende Kleidungsstücke tragen, um sich unkenntlich zu 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 vermummen
- vermummt present singular third-person
- vermummte past
- haben auxiliary
- vermummend participle present
- vermumme first-person indicative present
- vermummst indicative present second-person
- vermummest second-person singular subjunctive
- vermummet plural second-person subjunctive
- vermummten first-person indicative plural
- vermummtest indicative preterite second-person
- vermummtet indicative plural preterite
- vermumm imperative second-person singular
- habe vermummt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben vermummt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- vermumm! imperative singular
- vermumme! imperative singular
- vermummt! imperative plural
- vermummt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is vermummen in German?
vermummen appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).