Nautilus
[ˈnaʊ̯tilʊs]
The verdict
“Nautilus” is uncommon German (frequency #53,936 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,936
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Tiergattung aus der Familie der Perlboote, welche zur Ordnung der Nautiliden gehört
Corpus desk
Index DE-nautilus · Nautilus · German
Nautilus · rank #53,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,936
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH naturwissensc…
Nearest frequency peer: naturwissenschaftlicher (-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 „Nautilus“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Nationalöko…
Nationalökonomie
46,069 corpus weight
- Naturkatast…
Naturkatastrophe
46,068 corpus weight
- naturwissen…
naturwissenschaftlicher
46,066 corpus weight
- Nautilus
Nautilus
46,065 corpus weight
- Navigations…
Navigationsgerät
46,064 corpus weight
- Neuseelands
Neuseelands
46,061 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Nautilus“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nautilus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnaʊ̯tilʊs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Nautilus“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Nautilus is uncommon German at frequency #53,936 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈnaʊ̯tilʊs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Tiergattung aus der Familie der Perlboote, welche zur Ordnung der Nautiliden gehört".
No misspelling variants are generated for Nautilus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Nautilus, spelled N-A-U-T-I-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1eine Tiergattung aus der Familie der Perlboote, welche zur Ordnung der Nautiliden gehört
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Nautilus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Da sich der Nautilus seit vielen Millionen Jahren nicht mehr verändert hat, wird er als lebendes Fossil bezeichnet.“
This word in other languages
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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