Widerstand
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,276
in German word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Widerstand is aGermannoun. It means: Eigenschaft, trotz eines verändernden Einflusses im derzeitigen Zustand zu verharren, sich nicht zu verändern Pronounced [ˈviːdɐˌʃtant]. It ranks #2,276 in German word frequency. Often confused with Widerstands and Widerstände.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Widerstand |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈviːdɐˌʃtant] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Widerstand is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈviːdɐˌʃtant]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,276 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for Widerstand, with forms such as "iwderstand", "wdierstand", and "widderstand". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Widerstands", "Widerstände", "Widerstandes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Widerstand, spelled W-I-D-E-R-S-T-A-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Eigenschaft, trotz eines verändernden Einflusses im derzeitigen Zustand zu verharren, sich nicht zu verändern
- 2Verhältnis des Potentialunterschieds zum Strom; Kehrwert der Leitfähigkeit
- 3Bauelement zur Realisierung eines Widerstandes [2]
- 4Widerstandskraft (eine der Bewegung entgegengesetzte Kraft)
- 5[4] dividiert durch die Geschwindigkeit; Kehrwert der Mobilität
- 6Handlung mit der Absicht, die Wirkung anderer Handlungen abzuschwächen
- 7Gruppe, deren Aktivitäten sich gegen Handlungen von Obrigkeit, Regierung oder ähnliche Instanzen richten; Kurzform von Widerstandsbewegung
- 8prinzipielle Haltung gegen Regeln, Befehle, Normen oder Ähnliches
- 9Ablehnung eines anstehenden Fortschritts
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iwderstand,wdierstand,widderstand,widerrstand,widersatnd,widersstand,widerstadn,widerstandd,widerstannd,widerstnad,widersttand,widertsand,widesrtand,widrestand,wiedrstand,wwiderstand
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Widerstand
Misspelling Variants of "Widerstand"
Frequency rank: #2,276 in German
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