Widerstand
German, noun
Widerstand is spelled W-I-D-E-R-S-T-A-N-D (10 letters) and appears 37 times per million words in written German, the 2,246th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Widerstand is a German masculine noun meaning “resistance (act of resisting, or the capacity to resist)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, widerstand is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of widerstehen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Eigenschaft, trotz eines verändernden Einflusses im derzeitigen Zustand zu verharren, sich nicht zu verändern”.
What does Widerstand mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineresistance (act of resisting, or the capacity to resist)
- 2
masculineresistance (physics: force that tends to oppose motion)
- 3
masculineresistance (physics: opposition of a body to the flow of current)
- 4
masculineresistance (sociology/history: An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation)
- 5
masculineresistor (electronic component)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of widerstehen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Eigenschaft, trotz eines verändernden Einflusses im derzeitigen Zustand zu verharren, sich nicht zu verändern 2. Verhältnis des Potentialunterschieds zum Strom; Kehrwert der Leitfähigkeit 3. Bauelement zur Realisierung eines Widerstandes [2] 4. Widerstandskraft (eine der Bewegung entgegengesetzte Kraft)
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 Widerstand
- Widerstandes genitive
- Widerstands genitive
- Widerstände plural
- Widerstande dative singular
- Widerständen dative definite plural
- Wi. abbreviation
- R abbreviation
- Ohmscher Widerstand abbreviation
- [4] Größenzeichen: F_W abbreviation
- [5] Größenzeichen: W abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Widerstand
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Widerstand in German?
Widerstand appears 37 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).