Nahrungsquelle
[ˈnaːʁʊŋsˌkvɛlə]
The verdict
“Nahrungsquelle” is uncommon German (frequency #79,533 among 26,919 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,533
- frequency rank, German
- 26,919
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tier, Pflanze oder Ähnliches, das als Nahrung für ein anderes Lebewesen dient
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nahrungsquelle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnaːʁʊŋsˌkvɛlə] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #79,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nahrungsquelle” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Nahrungsquelle is uncommon German at frequency #79,533 among 26,919 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈnaːʁʊŋsˌkvɛlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tier, Pflanze oder Ähnliches, das als Nahrung für ein anderes Lebewesen dient".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Nahrungsquelle in our index, 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 tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Nahrungsquelle, spelled N-A-H-R-U-N-G-S-Q-U-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Tier, Pflanze oder Ähnliches, das als Nahrung für ein anderes Lebewesen 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 practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is N-A-H-R-U-N-G-S-Q-U-E-L-L-E - 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.