gegengleich
German, adjective/ˈɡeːɡənɡlaɪ̯ç/
gegengleich is spelled G-E-G-E-N-G-L-E-I-C-H (11 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written German, the 417,697th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gegengleich is a German adjective meaning “diametrically opposed, the mirror image to something else” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “spiegelbildlich zueinander”.
What does gegengleich mean in English?
adjective
- 1
diametrically opposed, the mirror image to something else
- 2
travelling at the same speed in the opposite direction to something else
adverb
- 1
in a way that is exactly opposed to or the mirror image of another action
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. spiegelbildlich zueinander 2. parallel zueinander, aber in entgegengesetzter Richtung
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of gegengleich
- gegengleicher masculine nominative singular
- gegengleiche feminine nominative singular
- gegengleiches neuter nominative singular
- gegengleichen genitive masculine singular
- gegengleichem dative masculine singular
- der gegengleiche definite includes-article masculine
- die gegengleiche definite feminine includes-article
- das gegengleiche definite includes-article neuter
- die gegengleichen definite includes-article nominative
- des gegengleichen definite genitive includes-article
- der gegengleichen definite feminine genitive
- dem gegengleichen dative definite includes-article
- den gegengleichen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gegengleich?
- /ˈɡeːɡənɡlaɪ̯ç/
- [ˈɡeːɡənɡlaɪ̯ç]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gegengleich in German?
gegengleich appears about once in every 48 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).