Nahrungsmittel
[ˈnaːʁʊŋsˌmɪtl̩]
The verdict
“Nahrungsmittel” has 21 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,528. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,528
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Speisen und Getränke, die dem Menschen und seinem Körper zur Ernährung, also seiner Versorgung mit Energie, Baustoffen und Vitaminen dienen
Corpus desk
Index DE-nahrungsmittel · Nahrungsmittel · German
Nahrungsmittel · rank #10,528 · 21 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,528
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 21 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Neuwahlen
Nearest frequency peer: Neuwahlen (+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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Nahrungsmittel“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Montage
Montage
89,476 corpus weight
- monte
monte
89,475 corpus weight
- Nahrungsmit…
Nahrungsmittel
89,473 corpus weight
- Neuwahlen
Neuwahlen
89,472 corpus weight
- Niederländer
Niederländer
89,471 corpus weight
- Norman
Norman
89,470 corpus weight
What this shows „Nahrungsmittel“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nahrungsmittel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnaːʁʊŋsˌmɪtl̩] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #10,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Nahrungsmittel“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 21 spelling variants around Nahrungsmittel (IPA [ˈnaːʁʊŋsˌmɪtl̩]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,528 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Speisen und Getränke, die dem Menschen und seinem Körper zur Ernährung, also seiner Versorgung mit Energie, Baustoffen und Vitaminen dienen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nahrungsmittel, with forms such as "anhrungsmittel", "nahhrungsmittel", and "nahrnugsmittel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Nahrungsmitteln", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Nahrungsmittel, spelled N-A-H-R-U-N-G-S-M-I-T-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1Speisen und Getränke, die dem Menschen und seinem Körper zur Ernährung, also seiner Versorgung mit Energie, Baustoffen und Vitaminen dienen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nahrungsmittel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nur wertvolle Nahrungsmittel sollten den Hunger vieler Kinder stillen.
„Mit dem Begriff Nahrungsmittel bezeichnet man eine inhomogene Gruppe organischer Stoffe tierischer oder pflanzlicher Herkunft und deren Zubereitungen, sowie bestimmte Salze und Flüssigkeiten.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anhrungsmittel
- nahhrungsmittel
- nahrnugsmittel
- nahrrungsmittel
- nahrugnsmittel
- nahrunggsmittel
- nahrungmsittel
- nahrungsimttel
- nahrungsmitel
- nahrungsmitetl
- nahrungsmittell
- nahrungsmittle
- nahrungsmmittel
- nahrungsmtitel
- nahrungssmittel
- nahrunngsmittel
- nahrunsgmittel
- nahurngsmittel
- narhungsmittel
- nharungsmittel
- nnahrungsmittel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Nahrungsmittel - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Nahrungsmittel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).