verspotten
German, verb
verspotten is spelled V-E-R-S-P-O-T-T-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 56,856th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verspotten is a German verb meaning “to make fun of, to mock” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verspotten is a different word: “gerund of verspotten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich boshaft über jemanden oder etwas lustig machen; über jemanden oder etwas spotten”.
What does verspotten mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make fun of, to mock
- 2
to ridicule
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verspotten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich boshaft über jemanden oder etwas lustig machen; über jemanden oder etwas spotten
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 verspotten
- verspottet present singular third-person
- verspottete past
- haben auxiliary
- verspottend participle present
- verspotte first-person indicative present
- verspottest indicative present second-person
- verspotteten first-person indicative plural
- verspottetest indicative preterite second-person
- verspottetet indicative plural preterite
- verspott imperative second-person singular
- habe verspottet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben verspottet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- verspotte! imperative singular
- verspottet! imperative plural
- verspottet haben active infinitive perfect
- verspottet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- verspottet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
- zu verspotten active extended infinitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verspotten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verspotten in German?
verspotten 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).