Nachschlag
[ˈnaːxˌʃlaːk]
The verdict
“Nachschlag” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,346. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,346
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zusätzliche Portion der vorherigen Speise (in kleinerer Menge)
Corpus desk
Index DE-nachschlag · Nachschlag · German
Nachschlag · rank #48,346 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,346
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH mühsame
Nearest frequency peer: mühsame (-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 „Nachschlag“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Möhre
Möhre
51,658 corpus weight
- Mühlacker
Mühlacker
51,657 corpus weight
- mühsame
mühsame
51,656 corpus weight
- Nachschlag
Nachschlag
51,655 corpus weight
- Namenstag
Namenstag
51,653 corpus weight
- Natal
Natal
51,652 corpus weight
What this shows „Nachschlag“ 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 | Nachschlag |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnaːxˌʃlaːk] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #48,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Nachschlag“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Nachschlag (IPA [ˈnaːxˌʃlaːk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,346 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nachschlag, with forms such as "anchschlag", "nacchschlag", and "nachcshlag". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "nachschlagen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Nachschlag, spelled N-A-C-H-S-C-H-L-A-G.
Definition
- 1zusätzliche Portion der vorherigen Speise (in kleinerer Menge)
- 2abschließender Ausgleich von gegenseitigen Schuldverhältnissen
- 3„Verzierung von zwei Tönen am Ende des Trillers“
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nachschlag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„»Es war einfach klasse. Kann ich da noch mal einen Nachschlag bekommen?« »Oh, gerne.« Die Augen der Wirtin strahlten.“
„Sie brachten es fertig, gestandene Wüstenfüchse, die es wagten, um Nachschlag zu bitten, zu zitternden Nervenbündeln zu machen.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anchschlag
- nacchschlag
- nachcshlag
- nachhschlag
- nachscchlag
- nachschalg
- nachschhlag
- nachschlagg
- nachschlga
- nachschllag
- nachsclhag
- nachshclag
- nachsschlag
- nacshchlag
- nahcschlag
- ncahschlag
- nnachschlag
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Nachschlag - 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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).