Nachteil
[ˈnaːxˌtaɪ̯l]
The verdict
“Nachteil” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,092. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,092
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - negative oder unerwünschte Folge oder negativer Nebeneffekt, zum Beispiel einer Lösung, eines Vorgehens, einer Überlegung
Corpus desk
Index DE-nachteil · Nachteil · German
Nachteil · rank #6,092 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,092
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Muskeln
Nearest frequency peer: Muskeln (-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 „Nachteil“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Minus
Minus
93,912 corpus weight
- Muskeln
Muskeln
93,910 corpus weight
- Nachteil
Nachteil
93,909 corpus weight
- nehmt
nehmt
93,908 corpus weight
- netter
netter
93,907 corpus weight
- nina
nina
93,906 corpus weight
What this shows „Nachteil“ 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 | Nachteil |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnaːxˌtaɪ̯l] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Nachteil“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Nachteil (IPA [ˈnaːxˌtaɪ̯l]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,092 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "negative oder unerwünschte Folge oder negativer Nebeneffekt, zum Beispiel einer Lösung, eines Vorgehens, einer Überlegung".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nachteil, with forms such as "anchteil", "nacchteil", and "nachetil". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Nächten", "Nachweis", "Nachteile", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Nachteil, spelled N-A-C-H-T-E-I-L.
Definition
- 1negative oder unerwünschte Folge oder negativer Nebeneffekt, zum Beispiel einer Lösung, eines Vorgehens, einer Überlegung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nachteil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wenn du uns hilfst, soll das nicht zu deinem Nachteil sein.
Wir müssen nach einer Lösung suchen, die ohne Nachteil für die Arbeitnehmer ist.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anchteil
- nacchteil
- nachetil
- nachhteil
- nachteill
- nachteli
- nachtiel
- nachtteil
- nactheil
- nahcteil
- ncahteil
- nnachteil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Nachteil - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Nachteil", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).