Nerz
[nɛʁt͡s]
The verdict
“Nerz” is an uncommon German word, ranked #67,551 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #67,551
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Raubtier aus der Familie der Marder, das ein dichtes bräunliches Fell hat
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nerz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [nɛʁt͡s] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nerz” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Nerz is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [nɛʁt͡s]. Corpus data places it at rank #67,551 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Nerz 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 Nerz, spelled N-E-R-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Raubtier aus der Familie der Marder, das ein dichtes bräunliches Fell hat
- 2Fell des unter [1] beschriebenen Raubtiers
- 3ein aus mehreren unter [2] beschriebenen Fellen hergestellter Pelz (zum Beispiel eine Jacke oder ein Mantel)
This word in other languages
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is N-E-R-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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