nachgehen
[ˈnaːxˌɡeːən]
The verdict
“nachgehen” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,135. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,135
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandem folgen, hinter jemandem hergehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-nachgehen · nachgehen · German
nachgehen · rank #12,135 · 14 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,135
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH nachfolgende
Nearest frequency peer: nachfolgende (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „nachgehen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- motivieren
motivieren
87,869 corpus weight
- Mülheim
Mülheim
87,868 corpus weight
- nachfolgende
nachfolgende
87,867 corpus weight
- nachgehen
nachgehen
87,866 corpus weight
- Naht
Naht
87,865 corpus weight
- nature
nature
87,864 corpus weight
What this shows „nachgehen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nachgehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈnaːxˌɡeːən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „nachgehen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around nachgehen (IPA [ˈnaːxˌɡeːən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,135 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for nachgehen, with forms such as "anchgehen", "nacchgehen", and "nacghehen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "nachgeht", "nachlesen", "nachsehen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is nachgehen, spelled N-A-C-H-G-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemandem folgen, hinter jemandem hergehen
- 2genauere Nachforschungen über etwas betreiben (Gegenstand der Nachforschung im Dativ)
- 3eine falsche, bereits verstrichene Uhrzeit anzeigen
- 4sich regelmäßig intensiv mit etwas beschäftigen (Gegenstand der Beschäftigung im Dativ, siehe Charakteristische Wortkombinationen)
- 5jemanden beschäftigen, jemanden umtreiben, jemanden nicht loslassen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nachgehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Benno ist schon weg, ich werde ihm nachgehen.
Den Machenschaften des Präsidenten sollte man einmal nachgehen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anchgehen
- nacchgehen
- nacghehen
- nacheghen
- nachgeehn
- nachgehenn
- nachgehhen
- nachgehne
- nachggehen
- nachgheen
- nachhgehen
- nahcgehen
- ncahgehen
- nnachgehen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nachgehen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).