NASCAR
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The verdict
“NASCAR” is uncommon German (frequency #51,557 among 26,919 “N” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,557
- frequency rank, German
- 26,919
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | NASCAR |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “NASCAR” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
NASCAR is uncommon German at frequency #51,557 among 26,919 “N” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing".
No generated misspelling entries exist for NASCAR in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is NASCAR, spelled N-A-S-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
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-S-C-A-R - 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.