Nerd
[nœːɐ̯t]
The verdict
“Nerd” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,343. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,343
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die sich besonders mit Computern oder anderen Bereichen aus Wissenschaft und Technik beschäftigt, deren soziale Kompetenzen aber entweder schwach ausgeprägt sind oder diesen Eindruck zumind...
Corpus desk
Index DE-nerd · Nerd · German
Nerd · rank #18,343 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,343
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Naturpark
Nearest frequency peer: Naturpark (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Nerd“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Nachspielze…
Nachspielzeit
81,662 corpus weight
- Narr
Narr
81,660 corpus weight
- Naturpark
Naturpark
81,659 corpus weight
- Nerd
Nerd
81,658 corpus weight
- nero
nero
81,657 corpus weight
- Objektivität
Objektivität
81,655 corpus weight
What this shows „Nerd“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Nerd |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [nœːɐ̯t] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Nerd“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Nerd (IPA [nœːɐ̯t]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,343 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Person, die sich besonders mit Computern oder anderen Bereichen aus Wissenschaft und Technik beschäftigt, deren soziale Kompetenzen aber entweder schwach ausgeprägt sind oder diesen Eindruck zumind...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nerd, with forms such as "enrd", "nedr", and "nerdd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nur", "neu", "new", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Nerd, spelled N-E-R-D.
Definition
- 1Person, die sich besonders mit Computern oder anderen Bereichen aus Wissenschaft und Technik beschäftigt, deren soziale Kompetenzen aber entweder schwach ausgeprägt sind oder diesen Eindruck zumindest erwecken
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nerd appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gamer, Exoten und andere Nerds treffen sich am Wochenende zur Messe.
Er hatte überhaupt nichts dagegen, dass sie ihn Nerd nannten, im Gegenteil.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enrd
- nedr
- nerdd
- nerrd
- nnerd
- nred
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Nerd - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Nerd", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).