nen
[nɛ̃]
The verdict
“nen” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #820) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #820
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Geruchs- und Atmungsorgan in der Mitte des Gesichts; Nase
Corpus desk
Index DE-nen · nen · German
nen · rank #820 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #820
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Lösung
Nearest frequency peer: Lösung (-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 „nen“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- La
La
99,184 corpus weight
- Luft
Luft
99,183 corpus weight
- Lösung
Lösung
99,182 corpus weight
- nen
nen
99,181 corpus weight
- Reihe
Reihe
99,180 corpus weight
- Stimme
Stimme
99,178 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „nen“ 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 | nen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [nɛ̃] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „nen“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nen is neighbouring look-alikes ("NS", "Ni", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [nɛ̃]. Frequency #820 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Geruchs- und Atmungsorgan in der Mitte des Gesichts; Nase".
No misspelling variants are generated for nen in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is nen, spelled N-E-N.
Definition
- 1Geruchs- und Atmungsorgan in der Mitte des Gesichts; Nase
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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