Nervus radialis
[ˌnɛʁvʊs ʁaˈdi̯aːlɪs]
The verdict
“Nervus radialis” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - der Speichennerv; Nerv des Armnervengeflechtes, der die Streckmuskeln des Ellenbogen-, des Handgelenks und der Finger- (bei Tieren der Vorderzehen-)gelenke innerviert; der an der Armspeiche anliege...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nervus radialis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌnɛʁvʊs ʁaˈdi̯aːlɪs] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nervus radialis” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Nervus radialis is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌnɛʁvʊs ʁaˈdi̯aːlɪs]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "der Speichennerv; Nerv des Armnervengeflechtes, der die Streckmuskeln des Ellenbogen-, des Handgelenks und der Finger- (bei Tieren der Vorderzehen-)gelenke innerviert; der an der Armspeiche anliege...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Nervus radialis in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Nervus radialis, spelled N-E-R-V-U-S- -R-A-D-I-A-L-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1der Speichennerv; Nerv des Armnervengeflechtes, der die Streckmuskeln des Ellenbogen-, des Handgelenks und der Finger- (bei Tieren der Vorderzehen-)gelenke innerviert; der an der Armspeiche anliegende Nerv
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- The one correct German spelling is N-E-R-V-U-S- -R-A-D-I-A-L-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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