Which to use
“Nette” is a name and “nettes” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #3,060
- “Nette” frequency rank
- #8,914
- “nettes” frequency rank
- 11974
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | Nette | nettes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | linker Nebenfluss des Rheins, der bei Weißenthurm in den Mittelrhein mündet | Nominativ Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs nett |
Letter map: Nette vs nettes
Shared letters muted; letters that set Nette and nettes apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.
Part-of-speech tell for Nette / nettes
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Nette is aname and nettesanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “Nette” sits inside “nettes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11974, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
Nette is recorded at frequency rank #3,060, classified as aname, pronounced […]. nettes is at rank #8,914, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈnɛtəs].
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 11974, this pair ranks #1,966,898 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of Nette vs nettes
Shared letters: ent. Private to "Nette": -. Private to "nettes": s.
"Nette" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "nettes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "Nette" for "nettes" ever safe?
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What to do next
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- Full dictionary entry for "Nette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "nettes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,966,898 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "Nette" and "nettes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Nette 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 #1,966,898 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.