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verrückt

German, adjective/fɛɐˈʁʏkt/

verrückt is spelled V-E-R-R-Ü-C-K-T (8 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written German, the 3,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verrückt is a German adjective meaning “crazy, mad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of verrücken. The German Wiktionary defines it as “geistig verwirrt”.

What does verrückt mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    crazy, mad

    Das Verrückte ist, dass...

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of verrücken

verb

  1. 1

    second-person plural present

  2. 2

    third-person singular present

  3. 3

    plural imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. geistig verwirrt 2. auffallend und unkonventionell 3. verschoben; von einem Platz auf einen anderen bewegt

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 verrückt

  • verrückter masculine nominative singular
  • am verrücktesten superlative
  • verrückte feminine nominative singular
  • verrücktes neuter nominative singular
  • verrückten genitive masculine singular
  • verrücktem dative masculine singular
  • der verrückte definite includes-article masculine
  • die verrückte definite feminine includes-article
  • das verrückte definite includes-article neuter
  • die verrückten definite includes-article nominative
  • des verrückten definite genitive includes-article
  • der verrückten definite feminine genitive
  • dem verrückten dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce verrückt?

  • /fɛɐˈʁʏkt/
  • [fɛɐ̯ˈʁʏkt]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to verrückt

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is verrückt in German?

verrückt appears 23 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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