nachhinken
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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nachhinken is aGermanverb. It means: den anderen langsam (vielleicht auch wirklich hinkend) folgen Pronounced [ˈnaːxˌhɪŋkn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nachhinken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈnaːxˌhɪŋkn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for nachhinken is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnaːxˌhɪŋkn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for nachhinken in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 nachhinken, spelled N-A-C-H-H-I-N-K-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1den anderen langsam (vielleicht auch wirklich hinkend) folgen
- 2den Anschluss verlieren, nicht mehr mithalten können, in Rückstand geraten
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