Nachthemd
[ˈnaxtˌhɛmt]
The verdict
“Nachthemd” is uncommon German (frequency #50,744 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,744
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bekleidungsstück für die Nachtruhe, das vor allem von Damen getragen wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-nachthemd · Nachthemd · German
Nachthemd · rank #50,744 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,744
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Nachlässigkeit
Nearest frequency peer: Nachlässigkeit (-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 „Nachthemd“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- mürrisch
mürrisch
49,260 corpus weight
- nachbessern
nachbessern
49,259 corpus weight
- Nachlässigk…
Nachlässigkeit
49,258 corpus weight
- Nachthemd
Nachthemd
49,257 corpus weight
- Nachtzug
Nachtzug
49,256 corpus weight
- Nahverkehrs
Nahverkehrs
49,255 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Nachthemd“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nachthemd |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnaxtˌhɛmt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Nachthemd“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Nachthemd is uncommon German at frequency #50,744 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈnaxtˌhɛmt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bekleidungsstück für die Nachtruhe, das vor allem von Damen getragen wird".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Nachthemd, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Nachthemd, spelled N-A-C-H-T-H-E-M-D.
Definition
- 1Bekleidungsstück für die Nachtruhe, das vor allem von Damen getragen wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nachthemd appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zu Weihnachten bekam meine Mutter ein neues Nachthemd aus Seide.
„Sie sagte niemandem, wohin sie ging, und nahm nur ein Nachthemd und ihre Zahnbürste mit.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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