NC
[ɛnˈtseː]
The verdict
“NC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,655) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,655
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Numerus clausus
Corpus desk
Index DE-nc · NC · German
NC · rank #19,655 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,655
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Naturwissensc…
Nearest frequency peer: Naturwissenschaft (-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 „NC“
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- Nachforschu…
Nachforschungen
80,349 corpus weight
- Nationalhym…
Nationalhymne
80,348 corpus weight
- Naturwissen…
Naturwissenschaft
80,347 corpus weight
- NC
NC
80,346 corpus weight
- Neugierde
Neugierde
80,345 corpus weight
- Neunkirchen
Neunkirchen
80,344 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „NC“ 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 | NC |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛnˈtseː] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #19,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „NC“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for NC is neighbouring look-alikes ("Ne", "NS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɛnˈtseː]. Frequency #19,655 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Numerus clausus".
No generated misspelling entries exist for NC in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ne", "NS", "Nd", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is NC, spelled N-C.
Definition
- 1Numerus clausus
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.