nahebei
[naːəˈbaɪ̯]
The verdict
“nahebei” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in geringer Entfernung (zu einer bestimmten Stelle), nicht weit (von einer bestimmten Stelle) entfernt
Corpus desk
Index DE-nahebei · nahebei · German
nahebei · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nahebei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [naːəˈbaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nahebei“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nahebei is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed [naːəˈbaɪ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nahebei, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 nahebei, spelled N-A-H-E-B-E-I.
Definition
- 1in geringer Entfernung (zu einer bestimmten Stelle), nicht weit (von einer bestimmten Stelle) entfernt
- 2nicht ganz (aber fast vollständig)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nahebei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Steige in diesem Hotel ab, wenn du in Bitterfeld bist. Der Bahnhof ist nahebei und du hast kurze Wege.
Wir fanden einen idyllischen Campingplatz mit einem Naturfreibad nahebei.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.