Nachwirkung
[ˈnaːxˌvɪʁkʊŋ]
The verdict
“Nachwirkung” is uncommon German (frequency #53,928 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,928
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Folge einer Wirkung, nachträgliche oder nachhaltige Wirkung
Corpus desk
Index DE-nachwirkung · Nachwirkung · German
Nachwirkung · rank #53,928 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,928
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Nachtdienst
Nearest frequency peer: Nachtdienst (-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 „Nachwirkung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- nachbauen
nachbauen
46,076 corpus weight
- Nachrüstung
Nachrüstung
46,075 corpus weight
- Nachtdienst
Nachtdienst
46,074 corpus weight
- Nachwirkung
Nachwirkung
46,073 corpus weight
- NAD
NAD
46,071 corpus weight
- Nagasaki
Nagasaki
46,070 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Nachwirkung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nachwirkung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnaːxˌvɪʁkʊŋ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #53,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Nachwirkung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Nachwirkung is uncommon German at frequency #53,928 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈnaːxˌvɪʁkʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Folge einer Wirkung, nachträgliche oder nachhaltige Wirkung".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Nachwirkung, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Nachwirkung, spelled N-A-C-H-W-I-R-K-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Folge einer Wirkung, nachträgliche oder nachhaltige Wirkung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nachwirkung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durch die Verwendung von ökologischen Putzmitteln treten keine schädlichen Nachwirkungen ein.
Der damals abgeschlossene Friedensvertrag hatte noch jahrzehntelange Nachwirkungen.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).