Nahrungsquelle
[ˈnaːʁʊŋsˌkvɛlə]
The verdict
“Nahrungsquelle” is uncommon German (frequency #79,533 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,533
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tier, Pflanze oder Ähnliches, das als Nahrung für ein anderes Lebewesen dient
Corpus desk
Index DE-nahrungsquelle · Nahrungsquelle · German
Nahrungsquelle · rank #79,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,533
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Nachschlagewe…
Nearest frequency peer: Nachschlagewerke (-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 „Nahrungsquelle“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Nachnutzung
Nachnutzung
20,471 corpus weight
- nachreichen
nachreichen
20,470 corpus weight
- Nachschlage…
Nachschlagewerke
20,469 corpus weight
- Nahrungsque…
Nahrungsquelle
20,468 corpus weight
- naives
naives
20,467 corpus weight
- Napa
Napa
20,466 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Nahrungsquelle“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Nahrungsquelle“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Nahrungsquelle is uncommon German at frequency #79,533 among 1,954 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nahrungsquelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Offenbar lieferten die neuen Pflanzen den Säugern eine immer bessere Nahrungsquelle.“
„[…] als gute Nahrungsquellen für Bienen gelten die beiden Lavendelarten Lavandula angustifolia (Echter Lavendel) und Lavandula stoechas (Schopflavendel).“
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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