nervig
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,244
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
nervig is anGermanadj. It means: sehnig, kräftig, kraftvoll, stark, zäh; „den Eindruck angespannter Kraft vermittelnd“ Pronounced [ˈnɛʁfɪç]. It ranks #9,244 in German word frequency. Often confused with nervt and nervös.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nervig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈnɛʁfɪç] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for nervig is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnɛʁfɪç]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,244 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for nervig, with forms such as "enrvig", "nerivg", and "nerrvig". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "nervt", "nervös", "nervst", 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 nervig, spelled N-E-R-V-I-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sehnig, kräftig, kraftvoll, stark, zäh; „den Eindruck angespannter Kraft vermittelnd“
- 2entnervend, lästig, störend, unangenehm
- 3nervgesteuert, sensibel, aufgeweckt, kernig
- 4von „Nerven“ durchzogen, gerippt
- 5sich auf Nerven beziehend
- 6starkes und hartes Leder betreffend
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enrvig,nerivg,nerrvig,nervgi,nervigg,nervvig,nevrig,nnervig,nrevig
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nervig
Misspelling Variants of "nervig"
Frequency rank: #9,244 in German
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