nech
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The verdict
“nech” is uncommon German (frequency #68,517 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a particle. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,517
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nicht?, nicht wahr?, etwa nicht?, oder etwa nicht?
Corpus desk
Index DE-nech · nech · German
nech · rank #68,517 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,517
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Naturgewalt
Nearest frequency peer: Naturgewalt (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „nech“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Nasenspitze
Nasenspitze
31,487 corpus weight
- nativ
nativ
31,486 corpus weight
- Naturgewalt
Naturgewalt
31,485 corpus weight
- nech
nech
31,484 corpus weight
- Nelke
Nelke
31,483 corpus weight
- Nervengift
Nervengift
31,482 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „nech“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nech |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Particle |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nech“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nech is uncommon German at frequency #68,517 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as aparticle, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nicht?, nicht wahr?, etwa nicht?, oder etwa nicht?".
nech has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is nech, spelled N-E-C-H.
Definition
- 1nicht?, nicht wahr?, etwa nicht?, oder etwa nicht?
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nech appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So ist das heutzutage, nech? ( Audio⁽ᴵⁿᶠᵒ⁾)
This word in other languages
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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