vertippen
German, verb
vertippen is spelled V-E-R-T-I-P-P-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written German, the 317,631st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vertippen is a German verb meaning “to mistype” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Vertippen is a different word: “gerund of vertippen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “beim Schreiben (Tippen) auf einer Tastatur einen Fehler machen”.
What does vertippen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mistype
noun
- 1
neutergerund of vertippen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. beim Schreiben (Tippen) auf einer Tastatur einen Fehler 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 vertippen
- vertippt present singular third-person
- vertippte past
- haben auxiliary
- vertippend participle present
- vertippe first-person indicative present
- vertippst indicative present second-person
- vertippest second-person singular subjunctive
- vertippet plural second-person subjunctive
- vertippten first-person indicative plural
- vertipptest indicative preterite second-person
- vertipptet indicative plural preterite
- vertipp imperative second-person singular
- habe vertippt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben vertippt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- vertipp! imperative singular
- vertippe! imperative singular
- vertippt! imperative plural
- sich vertippen infinitive present not-extended
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is vertippen in German?
vertippen appears about once in every 30 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).