Nationalismus
[nat͡si̯onaˈlɪsmʊs]
The verdict
“Nationalismus” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #11,715 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #11,715
- frequency rank, German
- 13
- letters
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - politische Ideologie, die Ruhm, Wohlergehen, Macht und meist auch Überlegenheit der eigenen Nation in den Mittelpunkt stellt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nationalismus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [nat͡si̯onaˈlɪsmʊs] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #11,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nationalismus” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Nationalismus is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [nat͡si̯onaˈlɪsmʊs]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,715 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "politische Ideologie, die Ruhm, Wohlergehen, Macht und meist auch Überlegenheit der eigenen Nation in den Mittelpunkt stellt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nationalismus, with forms such as "antionalismus", "naitonalismus", and "natinoalismus". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Nationalismus, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-M-U-S.
Definition
- 1politische Ideologie, die Ruhm, Wohlergehen, Macht und meist auch Überlegenheit der eigenen Nation in den Mittelpunkt stellt
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: antionalismus,naitonalismus,natinoalismus,natioanlismus,nationailsmus,nationalimsus,nationalismmus,nationalismsu,nationalismuss,nationalissmus,nationalisums,nationallismus,nationalsimus,nationlaismus,nationnalismus,natoinalismus,nattionalismus,nnationalismus,ntaionalismus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Nationalismus - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “Nationalismus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-M-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [nat͡si̯onaˈlɪsmʊs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
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.