verwirren
German, verb
verwirren is spelled V-E-R-W-I-R-R-E-N (9 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written German, the 19,537th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Verwirren is a German verb meaning “to confuse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Verwirren is a different word: “gerund of verwirren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden durcheinander bringen”.
What does verwirren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to confuse
noun
- 1
neutergerund of verwirren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden durcheinander bringen 2. etwas durcheinander bringen
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 verwirren
- verwirrt present singular third-person
- verwirrte past
- verworr archaic past rare
- verworren participle past
- haben auxiliary
- verwirrend participle present
- verwirre first-person indicative present
- verwirrst indicative present second-person
- verwirrest second-person singular subjunctive
- verwirret plural second-person subjunctive
- verwirrten first-person indicative plural
- verworre archaic first-person formal
- verwirrtest indicative preterite second-person
- verworrst archaic indicative preterite
- verwirrtet indicative plural preterite
- verworrt archaic indicative plural
- verworrest archaic formal rare
- verwirre! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to verwirren
- puzzle
- confuse
- tangle
- muddle
- baffle
- confound
- disorient
- perplex
- fluster
- bewilder
- disconcert
- befuddle
- flummox
- bemuse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is verwirren in German?
verwirren appears 2.7 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).