nach und nach

/[ˈnaːx ʊnt ˈnaːx]/ phrase

Letters

13 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

nach und nach is aGermanphrase. It means: in einer langsamen, aber stetig fortschreitenden Entwicklung Pronounced [ˈnaːx ʊnt ˈnaːx].

Key facts for nach und nach
PropertyValue
Headwordnach und nach
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈnaːx ʊnt ˈnaːx]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

nach und nach is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for nach und nach is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnaːx ʊnt ˈnaːx]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "in einer langsamen, aber stetig fortschreitenden Entwicklung".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for nach und nach in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 nach und nach, spelled N-A-C-H- -U-N-D- -N-A-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    in einer langsamen, aber stetig fortschreitenden Entwicklung

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nach und nach"?
"nach und nach" is spelled N-A-C-H- -U-N-D- -N-A-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈnaːx ʊnt ˈnaːx].
What does "nach und nach" mean?
As a phrase, "nach und nach" means: in einer langsamen, aber stetig fortschreitenden Entwicklung
How do you pronounce "nach und nach"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nach und nach" is [ˈnaːx ʊnt ˈnaːx]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nach und nach" come from?
"nach und nach" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.