9
[nɔɪ̯n]
The verdict
“9” sits in 1 confusable pair (corpus #362) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #362
- frequency rank, German
- 1
- letter
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Neun darstellt
Corpus desk
Index DE-9 · 9 · German
9 · rank #362 · 0 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-CORE #362
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "9" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH Polizei
Nearest frequency peer: Polizei (-1 rank slots)
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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „9“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Glaube
Glaube
99,642 corpus weight
- Minuten
Minuten
99,641 corpus weight
- Polizei
Polizei
99,640 corpus weight
- 9
9
99,639 corpus weight
- beide
beide
99,637 corpus weight
- findet
findet
99,636 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „9“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | 9 |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [nɔɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „9“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 9 is neighbouring look-alikes ("neun"), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced [nɔɪ̯n]. Frequency #362. Gloss: "eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Neun darstellt".
9 doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "neun", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is 9, spelled 9.
Definition
- 1eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Neun darstellt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 9 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In Deutschland wird die Vereinigungsfreiheit in Art. 9 Grundgesetz garantiert.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.