Where the filth comes from.
Selected meanings adapted from Wiktionary contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Our adapted catalog is available under the same licence. Definitions are shortened for the games; countries and difficulty are curated by swears.fun. Sources checked 2 November 2026.
Countries mean accepted places of use, including regional and minority-language use—not an exclusive birthplace. Country lists are not exhaustive. Similar spellings with unrelated meanings are kept separate.
Shared swears
kurwa / kurva
Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Germany, Russia
Includes regional Finnish and Slovene, Upper Sorbian in Germany, and Ingrian/Karelian in Russia. Swedish, Indonesian and Maltese “kurva” meaning “curve” is excluded.
pička
Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro
Czech and Serbo-Croatian vulgar senses.
merde
France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada
French usage; the source also documents Belgian Dutch and Uri Alemannic use.
scheiße / scheisse
Germany, Austria, Switzerland
German usage, including the ss spelling used in Switzerland.
caralho
Portugal, Brazil
Portuguese vulgar noun and exclamation; accepted in Portugal and Brazil.
helvete
Sweden, Norway
Norwegian and Swedish exclamations.
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paskapää
shithead · Finnish · Finland
suksi vittuun
fuck off · Finnish · Finland
vittupää
fuckface · Finnish · Finland
cagacazzo
pain in the ass · Italian · Italy
rompipalle
ball-breaker · Italian · Italy
vaffanculo
fuck off / fuck you · Italian · Italy
porca troia
fucking hell · Italian · Italy
salopard
bastard · French · France
bordel
bloody hell · French · France
va te faire foutre
go fuck yourself · French · France
enculé
fucker · French · France
Arschgeige
asshole · German · Germany, Austria
Drecksack
scumbag · German · Germany, Austria
leck mich am Arsch
kiss my ass · German · Germany, Austria
Arschloch
arsehole · German · Germany, Austria, Switzerland
klootzak
bastard / arsehole · Dutch · Netherlands, Belgium
lul
prick · Dutch · Netherlands, Belgium
godverdomme
goddamn / fuck · Dutch · Netherlands, Belgium
skitstövel
shithead · Swedish · Sweden
skurwysyn
son of a bitch · Polish · Poland
tabarnak
fuck / bastard · French (Quebec) · Canada
câlisse
fuck · French (Quebec) · Canada
faen
damn / fuck · Norwegian · Norway
baszd meg
fuck you · Hungarian · Hungary