entgegnen
[ɛntˈɡeːɡnən]
The verdict
“entgegnen” is uncommon German (frequency #54,491 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,491
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - widersprechend antworten
Corpus desk
Index DE-entgegnen · entgegnen · German
entgegnen · rank #54,491 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,491
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH entgegenkommt
Nearest frequency peer: entgegenkommt (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „entgegnen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- entbrannte
entbrannte
45,513 corpus weight
- entgegengew…
entgegengewirkt
45,512 corpus weight
- entgegenkom…
entgegenkommt
45,511 corpus weight
- entgegnen
entgegnen
45,510 corpus weight
- entgleist
entgleist
45,509 corpus weight
- entledigt
entledigt
45,508 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „entgegnen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entgegnen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛntˈɡeːɡnən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „entgegnen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
entgegnen is uncommon German at frequency #54,491 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɛntˈɡeːɡnən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "widersprechend antworten".
No generated misspelling entries exist for entgegnen in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is entgegnen, spelled E-N-T-G-E-G-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1widersprechend antworten
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how entgegnen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Präsidentschaftskandidatin entgegnete: Das Video zeige genau, wer Trump wirklich sei.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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