Nh
The verdict
“Nh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,686) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,686
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nihonium
Corpus desk
Index DE-nh · Nh · German
Nh · rank #25,686 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,686
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Neurologie
Nearest frequency peer: Neurologie (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Nh“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Netzneutral…
Netzneutralität
74,318 corpus weight
- Neuerschein…
Neuerscheinungen
74,317 corpus weight
- Neurologie
Neurologie
74,316 corpus weight
- Nh
Nh
74,315 corpus weight
- nickte
nickte
74,314 corpus weight
- Niger
Niger
74,313 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Nh“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nh |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #25,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Nh“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Nh is neighbouring look-alikes ("NS", "Ni", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #25,686 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Nihonium".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Nh in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NS", "Ni", "nm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Nh, spelled N-H.
Definition
- 1Nihonium
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Nh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Isotop ²⁷⁸Nh wurde 2012 hergestellt.
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.