nachzugehen
[ˈnaːxt͡suˌɡeːən]
The verdict
“nachzugehen” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,077. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,077
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - erweiterter Infinitiv Aktiv des Verbs nachgehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-nachzugehen · nachzugehen · German
nachzugehen · rank #22,077 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,077
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH nachträgliche
Nearest frequency peer: nachträgliche (-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 „nachzugehen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- mögt
mögt
77,927 corpus weight
- Mücke
Mücke
77,926 corpus weight
- nachträglic…
nachträgliche
77,925 corpus weight
- nachzugehen
nachzugehen
77,924 corpus weight
- naturwissen…
naturwissenschaftliche
77,923 corpus weight
- Netzwerks
Netzwerks
77,922 corpus weight
What this shows „nachzugehen“ 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 | nachzugehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈnaːxt͡suˌɡeːən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #22,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „nachzugehen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around nachzugehen (IPA [ˈnaːxt͡suˌɡeːən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,077 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "erweiterter Infinitiv Aktiv des Verbs nachgehen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for nachzugehen, with forms such as "anchzugehen", "nacchzugehen", and "nachhzugehen". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "nachzulesen", "nachzusehen", "nachgehen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is nachzugehen, spelled N-A-C-H-Z-U-G-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1erweiterter Infinitiv Aktiv des Verbs nachgehen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anchzugehen
- nacchzugehen
- nachhzugehen
- nachuzgehen
- nachzguehen
- nachzueghen
- nachzugeehn
- nachzugehenn
- nachzugehhen
- nachzugehne
- nachzuggehen
- nachzugheen
- nachzzugehen
- naczhugehen
- nahczugehen
- ncahzugehen
- nnachzugehen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nachzugehen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "nachzugehen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).