nachbauen
[ˈnaːxˌbaʊ̯ən]
The verdict
“nachbauen” is uncommon German (frequency #53,925 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,925
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - entsprechend einem Vorbild oder dem Original nochmals so bauen
Corpus desk
Index DE-nachbauen · nachbauen · German
nachbauen · rank #53,925 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,925
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Nachbars
Nearest frequency peer: Nachbars (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „nachbauen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Mölln
Mölln
46,079 corpus weight
- Mündigkeit
Mündigkeit
46,078 corpus weight
- Nachbars
Nachbars
46,077 corpus weight
- nachbauen
nachbauen
46,076 corpus weight
- Nachrüstung
Nachrüstung
46,075 corpus weight
- Nachtdienst
Nachtdienst
46,074 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „nachbauen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nachbauen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈnaːxˌbaʊ̯ən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nachbauen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nachbauen is uncommon German at frequency #53,925 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈnaːxˌbaʊ̯ən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "entsprechend einem Vorbild oder dem Original nochmals so bauen".
Zero misspellings are on record for nachbauen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is nachbauen, spelled N-A-C-H-B-A-U-E-N.
Definition
- 1entsprechend einem Vorbild oder dem Original nochmals so bauen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nachbauen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie bauten den Kölner Dom mit Legosteinen nach.
In Frankreich wurde die weltberühmte Chauvet-Höhle detailgetreu nachgebaut.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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