assistsvsNahmenConfusable pair

Quick tell: assists is a verb, Nahmen is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“assists” is a verb and “Nahmen” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#37,364
“assists” frequency rank
#2,510
“Nahmen” frequency rank
39874
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature assists Nahmen
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs assist männlicher Vorname

Letter map: assists vs Nahmen

Shared letters muted; letters that set assists and Nahmen apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

7 ch
assists
6 ch
Nahmen

Role in the sentence - assists and Nahmen

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: assists is averb and Nahmenaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39874, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

assists is recorded at frequency rank #37,364, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Nahmen is at rank #2,510, tagged as aname, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 39874, this pair ranks #1,524,468 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of assists vs Nahmen

Shared letters: a. Private to "assists": ist. Private to "Nahmen": ehmn.

"assists" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCC  ·  "Nahmen" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • assistsasissts · asists · assisst · assissts · assistss · assistts · assitss · asssits
  • Nahmenanhmen · nahemn · nahhmen · nahmenn · nahmmen · nahmne · namhen · nhamen

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "assists" for "Nahmen" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "assists" is a verb and "Nahmen" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "assists" or "Nahmen" show up more?
"Nahmen" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,510 in our German list, against #37,364 for "assists". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "assists" and "Nahmen". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "assists" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Nahmen" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,524,468 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "assists" and "Nahmen" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "assists vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,524,468 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list