Gegenkandidat
[ˈɡeːɡn̩kandiˌdaːt]
The verdict
“Gegenkandidat” is uncommon German (frequency #69,252 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,252
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemand, der als Konkurrent eines anderen Kandidaten auftritt
Corpus desk
Index DE-gegenkandidat · Gegenkandidat · German
Gegenkandidat · rank #69,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,252
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH geblutet
Nearest frequency peer: geblutet (-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 „Gegenkandidat“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Gasthauses
Gasthauses
30,752 corpus weight
- Gaumenfreud…
Gaumenfreuden
30,751 corpus weight
- geblutet
geblutet
30,750 corpus weight
- Gegenkandid…
Gegenkandidat
30,749 corpus weight
- gegrillte
gegrillte
30,748 corpus weight
- Geheimbund
Geheimbund
30,747 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gegenkandidat“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gegenkandidat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡeːɡn̩kandiˌdaːt] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #69,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gegenkandidat“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gegenkandidat is uncommon German at frequency #69,252 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡeːɡn̩kandiˌdaːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "jemand, der als Konkurrent eines anderen Kandidaten auftritt".
No misspelling variants are generated for Gegenkandidat in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct German form is Gegenkandidat, spelled G-E-G-E-N-K-A-N-D-I-D-A-T.
Definition
- 1jemand, der als Konkurrent eines anderen Kandidaten auftritt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gegenkandidat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bei seiner Wahl zum Spitzenkandidaten hatte Pretzell vorigen September gegen einen wenig bekannten Gegenkandidaten auch nur 54 Prozent der Delegierten überzeugt.“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).