verschalen
German, verb
verschalen is spelled V-E-R-S-C-H-A-L-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 89 million words in written German, the 594,587th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verschalen is a German verb meaning “to plank; to lag” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verschalen is a different word: “gerund of verschalen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Hülle (Schale) bauen, in die dann zum Beispiel Beton gegossen werden kann”.
What does verschalen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to plank; to lag
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verschalen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Hülle (Schale) bauen, in die dann zum Beispiel Beton gegossen werden kann 2. etwas von innen auskleiden oder von außen umhüllen, so dass eine schützende Schale entsteht 3. an Geschmack und Spritzigkeit verlieren, schal werden
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 verschalen
- verschalt present singular third-person
- verschalte past
- haben auxiliary
- verschalend participle present
- verschale first-person indicative present
- verschalst indicative present second-person
- verschalest second-person singular subjunctive
- verschalet plural second-person subjunctive
- verschalten first-person indicative plural
- verschaltest indicative preterite second-person
- verschaltet indicative plural preterite
- verschal imperative second-person singular
- habe verschalt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verschalt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verschal! imperative singular
- verschale! imperative singular
- verschalt! imperative plural
- verschalt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verschalen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verschalen in German?
verschalen appears about once in every 89 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).