widersprechen
[ˌviːdɐˈʃpʁɛçn̩]
The verdict
“widersprechen” has 21 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,995. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,995
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf eine Aussage mit einer gegenteiligen Aussage antworten
Corpus desk
Index DE-widersprechen · widersprechen · German
widersprechen · rank #6,995 · 21 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,995
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Weisheit
Nearest frequency peer: Weisheit (-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 „widersprechen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- vollendet
vollendet
93,010 corpus weight
- vorbehalten
vorbehalten
93,009 corpus weight
- Weisheit
Weisheit
93,007 corpus weight
- widersprech…
widersprechen
93,006 corpus weight
- wissenschaf…
wissenschaftlicher
93,005 corpus weight
- östlichen
östlichen
93,002 corpus weight
What this shows „widersprechen“ 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 | widersprechen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌviːdɐˈʃpʁɛçn̩] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #6,995 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „widersprechen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around widersprechen (IPA [ˌviːdɐˈʃpʁɛçn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,995 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for widersprechen, with forms such as "iwdersprechen", "wdiersprechen", and "widdersprechen". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Widersprüche", "widersprochen", "Widersprüchen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is widersprechen, spelled W-I-D-E-R-S-P-R-E-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1auf eine Aussage mit einer gegenteiligen Aussage antworten
- 2im Gegensatz zu einer Sache stehen; dagegensprechen; nicht zusammenpassen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how widersprechen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie widersprachen seinen Ansichten heftig.
„Energisch hingegen widerspricht die Archäologin Historikern, die der altdeutschen Reichstagsstätte Worms eine burgundische Geschichte andichten.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwdersprechen
- wdiersprechen
- widdersprechen
- widerpsrechen
- widerrsprechen
- widersperchen
- widerspprechen
- widersprcehen
- widersprecchen
- widersprecehn
- widersprechenn
- widersprechhen
- widersprechne
- widersprehcen
- widersprrechen
- widersrpechen
- widerssprechen
- widesrprechen
- widresprechen
- wiedrsprechen
- wwidersprechen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of widersprechen - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "widersprechen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).