Gegner
[ˈɡeːɡnɐ]
The verdict
“Gegner” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,595. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,595
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person oder Institution/Organisation, die gegenteilige Interessen verfolgt
Corpus desk
Index DE-gegner · Gegner · German
Gegner · rank #1,595 · 9 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,595
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Garten
Nearest frequency peer: Garten (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Gegner“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Farbe
Farbe
98,409 corpus weight
- Führung
Führung
98,408 corpus weight
- Garten
Garten
98,407 corpus weight
- Gegner
Gegner
98,406 corpus weight
- Gründe
Gründe
98,405 corpus weight
- Gäste
Gäste
98,404 corpus weight
What this shows „Gegner“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gegner |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡeːɡnɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gegner“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Gegner (IPA [ˈɡeːɡnɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,595 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Person oder Institution/Organisation, die gegenteilige Interessen verfolgt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gegner, with forms such as "eggner", "gegenr", and "geggner". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "gerne", "Geier", "Genen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Gegner, spelled G-E-G-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person oder Institution/Organisation, die gegenteilige Interessen verfolgt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gegner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Gegner von Hannover 96 war diesmal der 1. FC Köln.
„Entgegen den Beteuerungen der romfreundlichen Autoren, die den 2. Römisch-Karthagischen Krieg als ein Ringen zwischen zwei gleich starken Gegnern darstellen, war die Disproportion zwischen den Beteiligten groß.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eggner
- gegenr
- geggner
- gegnerr
- gegnner
- gegnre
- genger
- ggegner
- ggener
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gegner - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Gegner", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).