nach und nach

/\ˈnaːx ʊnt ˈnaːx\/ adv

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

nach und nach is anFrenchadv. It means: Peu à peu, au fur et à mesure. Pronounced \ˈnaːx ʊnt ˈnaːx\.

Key facts for nach und nach
PropertyValue
Headwordnach und nach
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\ˈnaːx ʊnt ˈnaːx\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

nach und nach is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for nach und nach is 13 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈnaːx ʊnt ˈnaːx\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Peu à peu, au fur et à mesure.".

No misspelling variants are generated for nach und nach in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is nach und nach, spelled N-A-C-H- -U-N-D- -N-A-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Peu à peu, au fur et à mesure.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nach und nach"?
"nach und nach" is spelled N-A-C-H- -U-N-D- -N-A-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈnaːx ʊnt ˈnaːx\.
What does "nach und nach" mean?
As an adv, "nach und nach" means: Peu à peu, au fur et à mesure.
How do you pronounce "nach und nach"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nach und nach" is \ˈnaːx ʊnt ˈnaːx\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nach und nach" come from?
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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.