nevertheless
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The verdict
“nevertheless” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - nichtsdestoweniger; dennoch, trotzdem, gleichwohl
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nevertheless |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nevertheless” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
nevertheless is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nichtsdestoweniger; dennoch, trotzdem, gleichwohl".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nevertheless, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct German form is nevertheless, spelled N-E-V-E-R-T-H-E-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1nichtsdestoweniger; dennoch, trotzdem, gleichwohl
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “nevertheless”
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- The one correct German spelling is N-E-V-E-R-T-H-E-L-E-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.