widerlegen
German, verb
widerlegen is spelled W-I-D-E-R-L-E-G-E-N (10 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written German, the 18,198th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Widerlegen is a German verb meaning “to disprove, to refute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Widerlegen is a different word: “gerund of widerlegen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Behauptung widerlegen = beweisen, dass die Behauptung falsch ist”.
What does widerlegen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disprove, to refute
noun
- 1
neutergerund of widerlegen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. eine Behauptung widerlegen = beweisen, dass die Behauptung falsch ist
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 widerlegen
- widerlegt present singular third-person
- widerlegte past
- haben auxiliary
- widerlegend participle present
- widerlege first-person indicative present
- widerlegst indicative present second-person
- widerlegest second-person singular subjunctive
- widerleget plural second-person subjunctive
- widerlegten first-person indicative plural
- widerlegtest indicative preterite second-person
- widerlegtet indicative plural preterite
- widerleg imperative second-person singular
- habe widerlegt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben widerlegt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- widerlege! imperative singular
- widerlegt! imperative plural
- widerlegt haben active infinitive perfect
- widerlegt werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to widerlegen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is widerlegen in German?
widerlegen appears 3.0 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).