Nachtarbeit
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#67,546
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Nachtarbeit is aGermannoun. It means: erwerbsmäßige Arbeit zwischen etwa 23 und 6 Uhr Pronounced [ˈnaxtʔaʁˌbaɪ̯t].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nachtarbeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnaxtʔaʁˌbaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Nachtarbeit is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnaxtʔaʁˌbaɪ̯t]. Corpus data places it at rank #67,546 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Nachtarbeit 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 Nachtarbeit, spelled N-A-C-H-T-A-R-B-E-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1erwerbsmäßige Arbeit zwischen etwa 23 und 6 Uhr
- 2Tätigkeiten, die in der Nacht ausgeführt werden
Frequency rank: #67,546 in German
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