Nele
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,863
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Nele is aGermanname. It means: weiblicher Vorname Pronounced [ˈneːlə]. Often confused with NL and nie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nele |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [ˈneːlə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Nele is 4 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈneːlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,863 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "weiblicher Vorname".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Nele, with forms such as "enle", "neel", and "nelle". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NL", "nie", "neu", 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 Nele, spelled N-E-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1weiblicher Vorname
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enle,neel,nelle,nlee,nnele
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Nele
Misspelling Variants of "Nele"
Frequency rank: #27,863 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter N in our German index: