Gegenrede
[ˈɡeːɡn̩ˌʁeːdə]
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
- gefügt
gefügt
25,404 corpus weight
- Gegenfahrba…
Gegenfahrbahn
25,403 corpus weight
- Gegenpartei
Gegenpartei
25,402 corpus weight
- Gegenrede
Gegenrede
25,400 corpus weight
- gehaltener
gehaltener
25,399 corpus weight
- gehärtet
gehärtet
25,397 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gegenrede“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gegenrede |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡeːɡn̩ˌʁeːdə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gegenrede“ im Deutschen
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
- 1Widerstand in verbaler Form
- 2Vortrag (Rede), der auf einen zuvor gehaltenen Vortrag antwortet und ihm in Kernpunkten widerspricht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gegenrede appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ab ins Bett! Keine Gegenrede!
„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.
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