Gegenrede

[ˈɡeːɡn̩ˌʁeːdə]

/[ˈɡeːɡn̩ˌʁeːdə]/ noun

The verdict

“Gegenrede” is uncommon German (frequency #74,601 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#74,601
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Widerstand in verbaler Form

Corpus desk

Index DE-gegenrede · Gegenrede · German

Gegenrede · rank #74,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #74,601
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH gehaltener

Nearest frequency peer: gehaltener (+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 „Gegenrede“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gegenrede“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Gegenrede
PropertyValue
HeadwordGegenrede
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈɡeːɡn̩ˌʁeːdə]
Letters9
Frequency rank#74,601
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Gegenrede“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Gegenredefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „gehaltener“ (#74,602), „Gegenpartei“ (#74,599), „Gegenfahrbahn“ (#74,598). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „Gegenrede“ bei #74,601. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Gegenrede is uncommon German at frequency #74,601 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡeːɡn̩ˌʁeːdə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gegenrede, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

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 Gegenrede, spelled G-E-G-E-N-R-E-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Widerstand in verbaler Form
  2. 2
    Vortrag (Rede), der auf einen zuvor gehaltenen Vortrag antwortet und ihm in Kernpunkten widerspricht

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Gegenrede appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ab ins Bett! Keine Gegenrede!
  2. „Ich sagte ihr ohne Umschweife die Wahrheit, die sie ohne Gegenrede anhörte.“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Gegenrede"?
"Gegenrede" is spelled G-E-G-E-N-R-E-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɡeːɡn̩ˌʁeːdə].
What does "Gegenrede" mean?
As a noun, "Gegenrede" means: Widerstand in verbaler Form
How do you pronounce "Gegenrede"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Gegenrede" is [ˈɡeːɡn̩ˌʁeːdə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Gegenrede" come from?
"Gegenrede" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gegenrede", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list