nebenher
[ˌneːbn̩ˈheːɐ̯]
The verdict
“nebenher” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,638
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - noch dazu, auch noch
Corpus desk
Index DE-nebenher · nebenher · German
nebenher · rank #18,638 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #18,638
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH namhafte
Nearest frequency peer: namhafte (-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 „nebenher“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Nachruf
Nachruf
81,365 corpus weight
- namhafte
namhafte
81,364 corpus weight
- nebenher
nebenher
81,363 corpus weight
- Netzes
Netzes
81,362 corpus weight
- Neuerung
Neuerung
81,361 corpus weight
- neunte
neunte
81,360 corpus weight
What this shows „nebenher“ 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 | nebenher |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˌneːbn̩ˈheːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „nebenher“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around nebenher (IPA [ˌneːbn̩ˈheːɐ̯]), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #18,638 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for nebenher, with forms such as "enbenher", "nbeenher", and "nebbenher". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "nebenbei", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is nebenher, spelled N-E-B-E-N-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1noch dazu, auch noch
- 2wie zufällig, am Rande, ohne besondere Betonung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nebenher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er studiert Philosophie und fährt nebenher Taxi.
Beim Abendessen erwähnte sie nebenher, dass ihr gekündigt wurde.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enbenher
- nbeenher
- nebbenher
- nebehner
- nebenehr
- nebenherr
- nebenhher
- nebenhre
- nebennher
- nebneher
- neebnher
- nnebenher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nebenher - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "nebenher", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).