known vs Nahmen, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#40,645
“known” frequency rank: #2,510
“Nahmen” frequency rank: 43155
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	known	Nahmen
Definition	Partizip Perfekt (past participle) des Verbs know	männlicher Vorname

Letter map: known vs Nahmen

Shared letters muted; letters that set known and Nahmen apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

5 ch

known

6 ch

Nahmen

Part-of-speech tell for known / Nahmen

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: known is averb and Nahmenaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43155, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

known is recorded at frequency rank #40,645, 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 43155, this pair ranks #1,426,943 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of known vs Nahmen

Shared letters: n. Private to "known": kow. Private to "Nahmen": aehm.

"known" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC · "Nahmen" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

known ← kknown · knnown · knonw · knownn · knowwn · knwon · konwn · nkown
Nahmen ← anhmen · nahemn · nahhmen · nahmenn · nahmmen · nahmne · namhen · nhamen

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "known" and "Nahmen" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "known" is a verb and "Nahmen" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "known" or "Nahmen"?

"Nahmen" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,510 in our German list, against #40,645 for "known". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "known" and "Nahmen".

Full dictionary entry for "known" 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 #1,426,943 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"known" and "Nahmen" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "known 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 #1,426,943 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.