nächtigen
[ˈnɛçtɪɡn̩]
The verdict
“nächtigen” is uncommon German (frequency #74,927 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,927
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - irgendwo die Nacht verbringen
Corpus desk
Index DE-nachtigen · nächtigen · German
nächtigen · rank #74,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,927
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH nunmehrigen
Nearest frequency peer: nunmehrigen (-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 „nächtigen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Nordrand
Nordrand
25,078 corpus weight
- Nudelsalat
Nudelsalat
25,076 corpus weight
- nunmehrigen
nunmehrigen
25,075 corpus weight
- nächtigen
nächtigen
25,074 corpus weight
- OCR
OCR
25,073 corpus weight
- options
options
25,070 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „nächtigen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nächtigen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈnɛçtɪɡn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nächtigen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nächtigen is uncommon German at frequency #74,927 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈnɛçtɪɡn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for nächtigen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is nächtigen, spelled N-Ä-C-H-T-I-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1irgendwo die Nacht verbringen
- 2übernachten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nächtigen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notschlafstellen sind Orte, an denen Obdachlose nächtigen können.
Ich habe drei Tage in einer Schiffskajüte genächtigt.
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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