antithèse
[ɑ̃.ti.tɛz]
The verdict
“antithèse” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stilmittel, bei dem zwei gegensätzliche Begriffe gegenübergestellt werden; Antithese, Gegensatz
Corpus desk
Index DE-antithese · antithèse · German
antithèse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antithèse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɑ̃.ti.tɛz] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „antithèse“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
antithèse is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɑ̃.ti.tɛz]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Stilmittel, bei dem zwei gegensätzliche Begriffe gegenübergestellt werden; Antithese, Gegensatz".
antithèse has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is antithèse, spelled A-N-T-I-T-H-È-S-E.
Definition
- 1Stilmittel, bei dem zwei gegensätzliche Begriffe gegenübergestellt werden; Antithese, Gegensatz
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.