Nachteil
German, noun/ˈnaːxtai̯l/
Nachteil is spelled N-A-C-H-T-E-I-L (8 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written German, the 6,059th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nachteil is a German masculine noun meaning “disadvantage, demerit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “negative oder unerwünschte Folge oder negativer Nebeneffekt, zum Beispiel einer Lösung, eines Vorgehens…”.
What does Nachteil mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedisadvantage, demerit
- 2
masculinedrawback
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. negative oder unerwünschte Folge oder negativer Nebeneffekt, zum Beispiel einer Lösung, eines Vorgehens, einer Überlegung
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Nachteil
- Nachteiles genitive
- Nachteils genitive
- Nachteile plural
- Nachteilen dative definite plural
- Nachtheil obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Nachteil?
- /ˈnaːxtai̯l/
- [ˈnaːxˌtaɪ̯l]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Nachteil
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Nachteil in German?
Nachteil appears 12 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).