championshipvsNahmenWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: championship is a noun, Nahmen is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“championship” is a noun and “Nahmen” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#24,669
“championship” frequency rank
#2,510
“Nahmen” frequency rank
27179
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature championship Nahmen
Definition Meisterschaft männlicher Vorname

Letter map: championship vs Nahmen

Shared letters muted; letters that set championship and Nahmen apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. championship runs 12 letters (CCVCCVVCCCVC) against Nahmen's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

12 ch
championship
6 ch
Nahmen

Role in the sentence - championship and Nahmen

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: championship is anoun and Nahmenaname. On the page they differ by 6 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27179, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

championship is recorded at frequency rank #24,669, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. Nahmen is at rank #2,510, tagged as aname, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 27179, this pair ranks #1,806,011 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of championship vs Nahmen

Shared letters: ahmn. Private to "championship": ciops. Private to "Nahmen": e.

"championship" · 12 letters · shape CCVCCVVCCCVC  ·  "Nahmen" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • championshipcahmpionship · cchampionship · chamiponship · chammpionship · champinoship · championhsip · championnship · championshhip
  • Nahmenanhmen · nahemn · nahhmen · nahmenn · nahmmen · nahmne · namhen · nhamen

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "championship" and "Nahmen" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "championship" is a noun and "Nahmen" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "championship" or "Nahmen" show up more?
"Nahmen" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,510 in our German list, against #24,669 for "championship". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "championship" and "Nahmen".

  • Full dictionary entry for "championship" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Nahmen" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,806,011 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "championship" and "Nahmen" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "championship vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,806,011 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list