nahestehen
[ˈnaːəˌʃteːən]
The verdict
“nahestehen” is uncommon German (frequency #59,919 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,919
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine enge Bindung zu jemandem oder etwas haben
Corpus desk
Index DE-nahestehen · nahestehen · German
nahestehen · rank #59,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,919
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH nacktes
Nearest frequency peer: nacktes (-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 „nahestehen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Nachtlager
Nachtlager
40,085 corpus weight
- nachwachsen…
nachwachsenden
40,084 corpus weight
- nacktes
nacktes
40,083 corpus weight
- nahestehen
nahestehen
40,082 corpus weight
- Nanjing
Nanjing
40,081 corpus weight
- Nationaltea…
Nationalteams
40,080 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „nahestehen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nahestehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈnaːəˌʃteːən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nahestehen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nahestehen is uncommon German at frequency #59,919 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈnaːəˌʃteːən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for nahestehen in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is nahestehen, spelled N-A-H-E-S-T-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine enge Bindung zu jemandem oder etwas haben
- 2wegen bestimmter Merkmale ähnlich sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nahestehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wilhelm Ostwald hatte atheistischen und antiklerikalen Bestrebungen stets nahegestanden.“
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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