verwickeln
German, verb
verwickeln is spelled V-E-R-W-I-C-K-E-L-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 48,795th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verwickeln is a German verb meaning “to involve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verwickeln is a different word: “gerund of verwickeln”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “durch eine Bindung/Abhängigkeit/Beeinflussung, die nicht so leicht zu lösen ist, (in eine Angelegenheit)…”.
What does verwickeln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to involve
- 2
to embroil
- 3
to entangle
- 4
to implicate
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verwickeln
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. durch eine Bindung/Abhängigkeit/Beeinflussung, die nicht so leicht zu lösen ist, (in eine Angelegenheit) hineinziehen 2. sich ineinander verknoten, umeinanderschlingen 3. etwas mit einem Material/Stoff umwickeln
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 verwickeln
- verwickelt present singular third-person
- verwickelte past
- haben auxiliary
- verwickelnd participle present
- verwickle first-person indicative present
- verwickele first-person indicative present
- verwickel first-person indicative present
- verwickelst indicative present second-person
- verwickelest second-person singular subjunctive
- verwicklest second-person singular subjunctive
- verwickelet plural second-person subjunctive
- verwicklet plural second-person subjunctive
- verwickelten first-person indicative plural
- verwickeltest indicative preterite second-person
- verwickeltet indicative plural preterite
- verwickel! imperative singular
- verwickele! imperative singular
- verwickelt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verwickeln
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verwickeln in German?
verwickeln appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).