naušnica
[ˈnǎuʃnit͡sa]
The verdict
“naušnica” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Ring oder anderes Schmuckstück, das am Ohr getragen wird; Ohrring
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | naušnica |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnǎuʃnit͡sa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “naušnica” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for naušnica is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnǎuʃnit͡sa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ring oder anderes Schmuckstück, das am Ohr getragen wird; Ohrring".
No misspelling variants are generated for naušnica in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is naušnica, spelled N-A-U-Š-N-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ring oder anderes Schmuckstück, das am Ohr getragen wird; Ohrring
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “naušnica”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is N-A-U-Š-N-I-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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