dagegenstemmen
Letters
14 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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dagegenstemmen is aGermanverb. It means: (etwas, mit etwas) fest gegen etwas anderes drücken Pronounced [daˈɡeːɡn̩ˌʃtɛmən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dagegenstemmen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [daˈɡeːɡn̩ˌʃtɛmən] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for dagegenstemmen is 14 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [daˈɡeːɡn̩ˌʃtɛmən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dagegenstemmen 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 dagegenstemmen, spelled D-A-G-E-G-E-N-S-T-E-M-M-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(etwas, mit etwas) fest gegen etwas anderes drücken
- 2sich mit aller Kraft (mit einem Körperteil) gegen etwas drücken
- 3heftigen Widerstand gegen etwas leisten, sich energisch widersetzen
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