Widerspiegelung
[ˈviːdɐˌʃpiːɡəlʊŋ]
The verdict
“Widerspiegelung” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vorgang und Ergebnis des Reflektierens/Widerspiegelns
Corpus desk
Index DE-widerspiegelung · Widerspiegelung · German
Widerspiegelung · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Widerspiegelung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈviːdɐˌʃpiːɡəlʊŋ] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Widerspiegelung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Widerspiegelung is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈviːdɐˌʃpiːɡəlʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vorgang und Ergebnis des Reflektierens/Widerspiegelns".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Widerspiegelung, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Widerspiegelung, spelled W-I-D-E-R-S-P-I-E-G-E-L-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Vorgang und Ergebnis des Reflektierens/Widerspiegelns
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Widerspiegelung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Alle diese kunstvoll ausgeheckten Anschläge, die sich gegenseitig durchkreuzten und verwirrten, waren nichts anderes als die getreue Widerspiegelung dessen, was zwangsmässig geschehen musste, in den höchsten Sphären der Armee.“
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