nez
[ne]
The verdict
“nez” is uncommon German (frequency #89,353 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,353
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organ zu Wahrnehmung von Gerüchen: Nase
Corpus desk
Index DE-nez · nez · German
nez · rank #89,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,353
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Niederkassel
Nearest frequency peer: Niederkassel (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „nez“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Nervenfasern
Nervenfasern
10,652 corpus weight
- neuerlicher
neuerlicher
10,651 corpus weight
- nez
nez
10,648 corpus weight
- Niederkassel
Niederkassel
10,647 corpus weight
- Niederlände…
Niederländerin
10,646 corpus weight
- Niederrad
Niederrad
10,645 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „nez“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nez |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ne] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #89,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nez“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nez is uncommon German at frequency #89,353 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ne]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organ zu Wahrnehmung von Gerüchen: Nase".
nez doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 nez, spelled N-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Organ zu Wahrnehmung von Gerüchen: Nase
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je respire par le nez.
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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