wuchern
German, verb
wuchern is spelled W-U-C-H-E-R-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 59,520th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wuchern is a German verb meaning “to practise usury; to usure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wuchern is a different word: “gerund of wuchern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “wild, (zu) stark, (zu) üppig, unkontrolliert, ungewollt wachsen oder blühen”.
What does wuchern mean in English?
verb
- 1
to practise usury; to usure
- 2
to make profitable use (usually in a non-financial sense)
- 3
to overgrow
- 4
to develop metastases
noun
- 1
neutergerund of wuchern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. wild, (zu) stark, (zu) üppig, unkontrolliert, ungewollt wachsen oder blühen 2. unangemessen hohe Preise verlangen, mit etwas Wucher treiben
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 wuchern
- wuchert present singular third-person
- wucherte past
- gewuchert participle past
- haben auxiliary
- wuchernd participle present
- wuchre first-person indicative present
- wuchere first-person indicative present
- wucher first-person indicative present
- wucherst indicative present second-person
- wucherest second-person singular subjunctive
- wuchrest second-person singular subjunctive
- wucheret plural second-person subjunctive
- wuchret plural second-person subjunctive
- wucherten first-person indicative plural
- wuchertest indicative preterite second-person
- wuchertet indicative plural preterite
- wuchere! imperative singular
- wucher! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to wuchern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is wuchern in German?
wuchern 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).