Nagoya
[naˈɡoːja]
The verdict
“Nagoya” is uncommon German (frequency #77,100 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,100
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Japan
Corpus desk
Index DE-nagoya · Nagoya · German
Nagoya · rank #77,100 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,100
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH nahezubringen
Nearest frequency peer: nahezubringen (+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 „Nagoya“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Mütterchen
Mütterchen
22,906 corpus weight
- Nagoya
Nagoya
22,901 corpus weight
- nahezubring…
nahezubringen
22,900 corpus weight
- Naples
Naples
22,899 corpus weight
- Nationalbew…
Nationalbewusstsein
22,898 corpus weight
- nationalsoz…
nationalsozialistisch
22,897 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Nagoya“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nagoya |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [naˈɡoːja] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Nagoya“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Nagoya is uncommon German at frequency #77,100 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [naˈɡoːja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Japan".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Nagoya, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Nagoya, spelled N-A-G-O-Y-A.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Japan
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nagoya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Verband der Anwälte in Nagoya empfiehlt daher Firmen und Vermietern, in jeden Vertrag eine Klausel aufzunehmen, die eine Kündigung erleichtert, wenn die Mietpartei dem organisierten Verbrechen angehört.“
„Ishido war vor Wut fast wahnsinnig geworden, als er hörte, dass seine verehrte Mutter sich in der Toranaga-Hochburg Nagoya befinde.“
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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