der Widerspruch
Meaning in English: contradiction, objection, appeal
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Gegen den Bescheid können Sie Widerspruch einlegen.
You can lodge an objection to the decision.
Der, die or das?
Widerspruch is masculine: der Widerspruch. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Widerspruch?
Widerspruch is number 3,977 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 47,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,973personenbezogenerpersonal (data)
- 3,974entwickeltendeveloped
- 3,975der Tonsound, tone, clay
- 3,976lasselet, leave (I)
- 3,977der Widerspruchcontradiction, objection, appeal
- 3,978formuliertworded, formulated
- 3,979das Radbike, wheel
- 3,980die Offensiveoffensive, attack
- 3,981dichtdense, thick, tight
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,977
- The most common German nouns#1,716
- German B2 vocabulary#899
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#438
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.