nachgiebig
[ˈnaːxˌɡiːbɪç]
The verdict
“nachgiebig” is uncommon German (frequency #97,431 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,431
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einen Standpunkt nicht konsequent verfolgend
Corpus desk
Index DE-nachgiebig · nachgiebig · German
nachgiebig · rank #97,431 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,431
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH nachfolgendem
Nearest frequency peer: nachfolgendem (-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 „nachgiebig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Münnerstadt
Münnerstadt
2,573 corpus weight
- nachfolgend…
nachfolgendem
2,571 corpus weight
- nachgiebig
nachgiebig
2,570 corpus weight
- nachsteht
nachsteht
2,569 corpus weight
- Nachtfalter
Nachtfalter
2,568 corpus weight
- nachträglic…
nachträgliches
2,567 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „nachgiebig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nachgiebig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈnaːxˌɡiːbɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nachgiebig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nachgiebig is uncommon German at frequency #97,431 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈnaːxˌɡiːbɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nachgiebig, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is nachgiebig, spelled N-A-C-H-G-I-E-B-I-G.
Definition
- 1einen Standpunkt nicht konsequent verfolgend
- 2leicht verformbar
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nachgiebig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mancher mag eine Entscheidung nachgiebig finden, ein anderer findet sie selbstvergessen.
„Auch gegenüber dem rabiaten Expansionskurs der USA zeigte sich die britische Regierung nachgiebig.“
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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