nahegehen
[ˈnaːəˌɡeːən]
The verdict
“nahegehen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Innere, die Gefühlswelt berühren; einen tiefen Eindruck machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-nahegehen · nahegehen · German
nahegehen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | nahegehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈnaːəˌɡeːən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nahegehen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nahegehen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈnaːəˌɡeːən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "das Innere, die Gefühlswelt berühren; einen tiefen Eindruck machen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nahegehen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 nahegehen, spelled N-A-H-E-G-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1das Innere, die Gefühlswelt berühren; einen tiefen Eindruck machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nahegehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die ganze Geschichte ist ihr natürlich nahegegangen.
Ich glaube schon, dass du ihr nahegehst, aber vielleicht reicht das nicht aus, für eine dauerhafte Beziehung als Paar?
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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.