nahende
The verdict
“nahende” is an uncommon German word, ranked #91,987 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #91,987
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs nahend
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nahende |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈnaːəndə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nahende” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for nahende is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnaːəndə]. Corpus data places it at rank #91,987 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for nahende in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is nahende, spelled N-A-H-E-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs nahend
- 2Akkusativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs nahend
- 3Nominativ Plural Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs nahend
- 4Akkusativ Plural Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs nahend
- 5Nominativ Singular Maskulinum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs nahend
- 6Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs nahend
- 7Akkusativ Singular Femininum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs nahend
- 8Nominativ Singular Neutrum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs nahend
- 9Akkusativ Singular Neutrum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs nahend
- 10Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs nahend
- 11Akkusativ Singular Femininum Positiv der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs nahend
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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- The one correct German spelling is N-A-H-E-N-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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