nel
[nel]
The verdict
“nel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,183) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,183
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verschmelzung der Präposition in mit dem bestimmten Artikel il
Corpus desk
Index DE-nel · nel · German
nel · rank #32,183 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,183
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Navigator
Nearest frequency peer: Navigator (-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 „nel“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- NADA
NADA
67,821 corpus weight
- Nadal
Nadal
67,820 corpus weight
- Navigator
Navigator
67,819 corpus weight
- nel
nel
67,818 corpus weight
- Nervenzellen
Nervenzellen
67,817 corpus weight
- nid
nid
67,816 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „nel“ 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 | nel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | [nel] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „nel“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nel is neighbouring look-alikes ("NS", "Ni", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced [nel]. Frequency #32,183 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Verschmelzung der Präposition in mit dem bestimmten Artikel il".
No misspelling variants are generated for nel in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NS", "Ni", "nm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is nel, spelled N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Verschmelzung der Präposition in mit dem bestimmten Artikel il
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).