against
[əˈɡɛnst]
The verdict
“against” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,459. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,459
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gegen, dagegen
Corpus desk
Index DE-against · against · German
against · rank #18,459 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,459
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Adoption
Nearest frequency peer: Adoption (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „against“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Abtei
Abtei
81,545 corpus weight
- Adels
Adels
81,544 corpus weight
- Adoption
Adoption
81,543 corpus weight
- against
against
81,542 corpus weight
- Akustik
Akustik
81,541 corpus weight
- Alberto
Alberto
81,540 corpus weight
What this shows „against“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | against |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | [əˈɡɛnst] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „against“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around against (IPA [əˈɡɛnst]), apreposition. Corpus frequency is #18,459 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for against, with forms such as "aaginst", "againnst", and "againsst". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Ägäis", "again", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is against, spelled A-G-A-I-N-S-T.
Definition
- 1gegen, dagegen
- 2gegen, dagegen
- 3gegen, dagegen
- 4gegen, dagegen
- 5gegen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how against appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was against his will.
"The purpose of this book is not only to underscore that torture is a moral issue, beyond all partisan politics, but also to help religious communities mobilize against it, so that all loopholes permitting torture by any U.S. agencies. wether military or intelligence, might be eliminated."
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aaginst
- againnst
- againsst
- againstt
- againts
- agaisnt
- aganist
- aggainst
- agianst
- gaainst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of against - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "against", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).