immigrationvsNahmenWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#37,583
“immigration” frequency rank
#2,510
“Nahmen” frequency rank
40093
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature immigration Nahmen
Definition Einwanderung männlicher Vorname

Letter map: immigration vs Nahmen

Shared letters muted; letters that set immigration and Nahmen apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

11 ch
immigration
6 ch
Nahmen

Part-of-speech tell for immigration / Nahmen

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: immigration is anoun and Nahmenaname. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40093, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

immigration is recorded at frequency rank #37,583, 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 40093, this pair ranks #1,518,232 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of immigration vs Nahmen

Shared letters: amn. Private to "immigration": giort. Private to "Nahmen": eh.

"immigration" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVVC  ·  "Nahmen" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • immigrationimigration · imimgration · immgiration · immigartion · immiggration · immigraiton · immigratino · immigrationn
  • Nahmenanhmen · nahemn · nahhmen · nahmenn · nahmmen · nahmne · namhen · nhamen

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "immigration" and "Nahmen" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "immigration" is a noun and "Nahmen" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "immigration" or "Nahmen"?
"Nahmen" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,510 in our German list, against #37,583 for "immigration". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "immigration" and "Nahmen". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "immigration" 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 #1,518,232 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "immigration" and "Nahmen" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "immigration 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 #1,518,232 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