antithesis
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
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antithesis is aGermannoun. It means: allgemein, meist mit »of« oder »in antithesis to«, auch »between«: jemand oder etwas, der/das das genau Andere zu etwas ist; das Gegenteil, ein Gegensatz, (Gegenbehauptung,) Entgegensetzung, Widers... Pronounced [ænˈtɪθəsɪs].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antithesis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ænˈtɪθəsɪs] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for antithesis is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ænˈtɪθəsɪs]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for antithesis in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is antithesis, spelled A-N-T-I-T-H-E-S-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1allgemein, meist mit »of« oder »in antithesis to«, auch »between«: jemand oder etwas, der/das das genau Andere zu etwas ist; das Gegenteil, ein Gegensatz, (Gegenbehauptung,) Entgegensetzung, Widerspruch (gegen)
- 2die Antithese, gegensätzliche Gegenüberstellung, Gegenbehauptung, um den Gegensatz besonders zu betonen
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