Naherholungsgebiet
[ˈnaːʔɛɐ̯ˌhoːlʊŋsɡəˌbiːt]
The verdict
“Naherholungsgebiet” is uncommon German (frequency #53,104 among 26,919 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,104
- frequency rank, German
- 26,919
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - naturbelassenes oder naturnahes Gebiet, das der Bevölkerung einer unweit gelegenen Stadt oder eines Ballungsraumes zur Freizeitgestaltung dient
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Naherholungsgebiet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnaːʔɛɐ̯ˌhoːlʊŋsɡəˌbiːt] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Frequency rank | #53,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Naherholungsgebiet” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Naherholungsgebiet is uncommon German at frequency #53,104 among 26,919 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈnaːʔɛɐ̯ˌhoːlʊŋsɡəˌbiːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "naturbelassenes oder naturnahes Gebiet, das der Bevölkerung einer unweit gelegenen Stadt oder eines Ballungsraumes zur Freizeitgestaltung dient".
Naherholungsgebiet has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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. The correct German form is Naherholungsgebiet, spelled N-A-H-E-R-H-O-L-U-N-G-S-G-E-B-I-E-T.
Definition
- 1naturbelassenes oder naturnahes Gebiet, das der Bevölkerung einer unweit gelegenen Stadt oder eines Ballungsraumes zur Freizeitgestaltung dient
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-R-H-O-L-U-N-G-S-G-E-B-I-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.