nachahmen
\ˈnaːxˌʔaːmən\
The verdict
“nachahmen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Imiter, copier, contrefaire, mimer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nachahmen · nachahmen · French
nachahmen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nachahmen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈnaːxˌʔaːmən\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nachahmen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nachahmen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈnaːxˌʔaːmən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Imiter, copier, contrefaire, mimer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nachahmen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 French form is nachahmen, spelled N-A-C-H-A-H-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Imiter, copier, contrefaire, mimer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nachahmen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.