nachrangig
[ˈnaːxˌʁaŋɪç]
The verdict
“nachrangig” is uncommon German (frequency #66,521 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,521
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - niedrigere Priorität aufweisend
Corpus desk
Index DE-nachrangig · nachrangig · German
nachrangig · rank #66,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,521
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Nachnahme
Nearest frequency peer: Nachnahme (-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 „nachrangig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- nachforschen
nachforschen
33,483 corpus weight
- nachgeahmt
nachgeahmt
33,482 corpus weight
- Nachnahme
Nachnahme
33,481 corpus weight
- nachrangig
nachrangig
33,480 corpus weight
- Nachträge
Nachträge
33,478 corpus weight
- nagelneuen
nagelneuen
33,476 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „nachrangig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nachrangig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈnaːxˌʁaŋɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nachrangig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nachrangig is uncommon German at frequency #66,521 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈnaːxˌʁaŋɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "niedrigere Priorität aufweisend".
No misspelling variants are generated for nachrangig in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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. The correct German form is nachrangig, spelled N-A-C-H-R-A-N-G-I-G.
Definition
- 1niedrigere Priorität aufweisend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nachrangig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Finanzielle Engpässe spielen der Untersuchung zufolge eine nachrangige Rolle – diese Begründung wurde nur von 11 Prozent angeführt (2008: 19).“
„Geht ein Unternehmen pleite, werden die Anleger jedoch nachrangig bedient und bekommen ihr Geld erst nach allen anderen Gläubigern zurück.“
Antonyms
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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