Ni
The verdict
“Ni” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,906) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,906
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nickel
Corpus desk
Index DE-ni · Ni · German
Ni · rank #10,906 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,906
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH neidisch
Nearest frequency peer: neidisch (-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 „Ni“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- mountain
mountain
89,098 corpus weight
- Nadel
Nadel
89,097 corpus weight
- neidisch
neidisch
89,096 corpus weight
- Ni
Ni
89,095 corpus weight
- Nicolas
Nicolas
89,094 corpus weight
- Objektive
Objektive
89,092 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Ni“ 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 | Ni |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #10,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Ni“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ni is neighbouring look-alikes ("NS", "nm", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #10,906 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Nickel".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Ni in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NS", "nm", "NL", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Ni, spelled N-I.
Definition
- 1Nickel
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ni appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ni → Ni²⁺ + 2 e⁻
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.