Nagetier
[ˈnaːɡəˌtiːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Nagetier” is uncommon German (frequency #98,843 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,843
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Säugetier (Ordnung Rodentia) mit langen, ständig nachwachsenden Schneidezähnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-nagetier · Nagetier · German
Nagetier · rank #98,843 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,843
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH nahebringen
Nearest frequency peer: nahebringen (+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 „Nagetier“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Nachzug
Nachzug
1,161 corpus weight
- nagelneues
nagelneues
1,160 corpus weight
- Nagetier
Nagetier
1,158 corpus weight
- nahebringen
nahebringen
1,157 corpus weight
- naheliegend…
naheliegender
1,156 corpus weight
- Namenspatron
Namenspatron
1,155 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Nagetier“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nagetier |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnaːɡəˌtiːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Nagetier“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Nagetier is uncommon German at frequency #98,843 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈnaːɡəˌtiːɐ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Säugetier (Ordnung Rodentia) mit langen, ständig nachwachsenden Schneidezähnen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Nagetier, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Nagetier, spelled N-A-G-E-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Säugetier (Ordnung Rodentia) mit langen, ständig nachwachsenden Schneidezähnen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nagetier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mäuse, Hamster und Eichhörnchen sind Nagetiere.
Auch Nagetiere haben das Problem der schwerverdaulichen Pflanzennahrung, das die meisten – ausgenommen etwa Siebenschläfer – wie die Hasentiere durch Caecotrophie, die doppelte Verdauung, lösen.
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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