Entgegnung
[ɛntˈɡeːɡnʊŋ]
The verdict
“Entgegnung” is uncommon German (frequency #87,643 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,643
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gegenteilige Antwort, Erwiderung auf eine zuvor von jemand anderem gemachte Äußerung
Corpus desk
Index DE-entgegnung · Entgegnung · German
Entgegnung · rank #87,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,643
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Ekliptik
Nearest frequency peer: Ekliptik (-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 „Entgegnung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Eisenwaren
Eisenwaren
12,361 corpus weight
- Ekliptik
Ekliptik
12,359 corpus weight
- Entgegnung
Entgegnung
12,358 corpus weight
- entgeistert
entgeistert
12,357 corpus weight
- entgiften
entgiften
12,356 corpus weight
- Entomologie
Entomologie
12,355 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Entgegnung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Entgegnung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛntˈɡeːɡnʊŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Entgegnung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Entgegnung is uncommon German at frequency #87,643 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɛntˈɡeːɡnʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gegenteilige Antwort, Erwiderung auf eine zuvor von jemand anderem gemachte Äußerung".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Entgegnung, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Entgegnung, spelled E-N-T-G-E-G-N-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1gegenteilige Antwort, Erwiderung auf eine zuvor von jemand anderem gemachte Äußerung
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Entgegnung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meine Entgegnung musste direkt auf die Vorwürfe hin erfolgen.
Synonyms
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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