Neffen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,765
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
Neffen is aGermannoun. It means: Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Neffe Pronounced [ˈnɛfn̩]. Often confused with neuen and nehmen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Neffen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnɛfn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Neffen is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnɛfn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,765 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Neffen, with forms such as "enffen", "nefefn", and "nefen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "neuen", "nehmen", "nennen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Neffen, spelled N-E-F-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Neffe
- 2Dativ Singular des Substantivs Neffe
- 3Akkusativ Singular des Substantivs Neffe
- 4Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Neffe
- 5Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Neffe
- 6Dativ Plural des Substantivs Neffe
- 7Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Neffe
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enffen,nefefn,nefen,neffenn,neffne,nfefen,nneffen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Neffen
Misspelling Variants of "Neffen"
Frequency rank: #12,765 in German
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