Kontroverse
German, noun
Kontroverse is spelled K-O-N-T-R-O-V-E-R-S-E (11 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written German, the 12,890th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kontroverse is a German feminine noun meaning “controversy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, kontroverse is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “länger anhaltender Disput, heftiger Streit (aufgrund unterschiedlicher oder gegensätzlicher Beurteilungen…”.
What does Kontroverse mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecontroversy
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. länger anhaltender Disput, heftiger Streit (aufgrund unterschiedlicher oder gegensätzlicher Beurteilungen, Einschätzungen, Meinungen bezüglich eines bestimmten Sachthemas)
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 Kontroverse
- Kontroversen plural
- Controverse obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Kontroverse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Kontroverse in German?
Kontroverse appears 4.7 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).