Nancy
[ˈnɑ̃ːsi]
The verdict
“Nancy” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,937. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,937
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauptstadt des französischen Départements Meurthe-et-Moselle in Lothringen/Grand Est
Corpus desk
Index DE-nancy · Nancy · German
Nancy · rank #11,937 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,937
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Nationalsozia…
Nearest frequency peer: Nationalsozialisten (+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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Nancy“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Mona
Mona
88,067 corpus weight
- montiert
montiert
88,066 corpus weight
- Nancy
Nancy
88,064 corpus weight
- Nationalsoz…
Nationalsozialisten
88,063 corpus weight
- Neuss
Neuss
88,062 corpus weight
- nm
nm
88,061 corpus weight
What this shows „Nancy“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Nancy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈnɑ̃ːsi] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Nancy“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Nancy (IPA [ˈnɑ̃ːsi]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,937 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Hauptstadt des französischen Départements Meurthe-et-Moselle in Lothringen/Grand Est".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nancy, with forms such as "anncy", "nacny", and "nanccy". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "nanu", "nanny", "nuance", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Nancy, spelled N-A-N-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt des französischen Départements Meurthe-et-Moselle in Lothringen/Grand Est
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nancy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In Nancy feiert man den heiligen Nikolaus 40 Tage lang mit Nikolausdörfern, Animationen, Karussells und Riesenrädern.“
„Ich brachte etwa zwölf Tage in Nancy damit zu, dem jungen Wildfang Anweisungen zu geben und die Mutter zu überzeugen, daß sie sich damit begnügen müsse, die sehr untertänige Dienerin der Gräfin Lascaris zu sein.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anncy
- nacny
- nanccy
- nancyy
- nanncy
- nanyc
- nnacy
- nnancy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Nancy - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Nancy", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).