Nachtbus
[ˈnaxtˌbʊs]
The verdict
“Nachtbus” is uncommon German (frequency #86,843 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,843
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bus (als öffentliches Verkehrsmittel), der in der Nacht fährt
Corpus desk
Index DE-nachtbus · Nachtbus · German
Nachtbus · rank #86,843 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,843
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH nachtreten
Nearest frequency peer: nachtreten (+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 „Nachtbus“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Mündern
Mündern
13,162 corpus weight
- Nachbauten
Nachbauten
13,161 corpus weight
- Nachdrucke
Nachdrucke
13,160 corpus weight
- Nachtbus
Nachtbus
13,158 corpus weight
- nachtreten
nachtreten
13,157 corpus weight
- Namibias
Namibias
13,155 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Nachtbus“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nachtbus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnaxtˌbʊs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Nachtbus“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Nachtbus is uncommon German at frequency #86,843 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈnaxtˌbʊs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bus (als öffentliches Verkehrsmittel), der in der Nacht fährt".
Nachtbus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Nachtbus, spelled N-A-C-H-T-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Bus (als öffentliches Verkehrsmittel), der in der Nacht fährt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nachtbus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir nehmen den Nachtbus.
„Dort wollte er den Nachtbus nach Algier nehmen und würde rechtzeitig ankommen, um am nächsten Morgen wieder in seinen Trainingsanzug zu schlüpfen und sein Chemietechnik-Studium aufzunehmen.“
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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