Nebenwirkung
[ˈneːbn̩ˌvɪʁkʊŋ]
The verdict
“Nebenwirkung” has 19 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #35,932. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,932
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unerwünschter oder nicht beabsichtigter, aber schwächerer Effekt, der bei einer medizinischen Behandlung oder durch Medikamente auftreten kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-nebenwirkung · Nebenwirkung · German
Nebenwirkung · rank #35,932 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #35,932
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Nigger
Nearest frequency peer: Nigger (+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 „Nebenwirkung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Musterbeisp…
Musterbeispiel
64,073 corpus weight
- Nachbau
Nachbau
64,072 corpus weight
- Nachfolgers
Nachfolgers
64,071 corpus weight
- Nebenwirkung
Nebenwirkung
64,069 corpus weight
- Nigger
Nigger
64,068 corpus weight
- nuggets
nuggets
64,066 corpus weight
What this shows „Nebenwirkung“ 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 | Nebenwirkung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈneːbn̩ˌvɪʁkʊŋ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #35,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Nebenwirkung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around Nebenwirkung (IPA [ˈneːbn̩ˌvɪʁkʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,932 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nebenwirkung, with forms such as "enbenwirkung", "nbeenwirkung", and "nebbenwirkung". 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, "Nebenwirkungen", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Nebenwirkung, spelled N-E-B-E-N-W-I-R-K-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1unerwünschter oder nicht beabsichtigter, aber schwächerer Effekt, der bei einer medizinischen Behandlung oder durch Medikamente auftreten kann
- 2unerwünschte oder nicht beabsichtigte Auswirkung als Folge einer Handlung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nebenwirkung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zu den Nebenwirkungen dieses Medikaments zählen Schweißausbrüche und innere Unruhe.
„Das Auftreten von schweren Nebenwirkungen sowie Resistenzentwicklung gehören zu den größten Problemen der modernen Krebstherapie.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enbenwirkung
- nbeenwirkung
- nebbenwirkung
- nebeniwrkung
- nebennwirkung
- nebenwikrung
- nebenwirkkung
- nebenwirknug
- nebenwirkugn
- nebenwirkungg
- nebenwirkunng
- nebenwirrkung
- nebenwirukng
- nebenwrikung
- nebenwwirkung
- nebewnirkung
- nebnewirkung
- neebnwirkung
- nnebenwirkung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Nebenwirkung - 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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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).