nicht nur … sondern auch
[nɪçt nuːɐ̯ … ˈzɔndɐn aʊ̯x]
The verdict
“nicht nur … sondern auch” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - nicht bloß … vielmehr
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nicht nur … sondern auch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [nɪçt nuːɐ̯ … ˈzɔndɐn aʊ̯x] |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nicht nur … sondern auch” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for nicht nur … sondern auch is 24 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [nɪçt nuːɐ̯ … ˈzɔndɐn aʊ̯x]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "nicht bloß … vielmehr".
No misspelling variants are generated for nicht nur … sondern auch 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 nicht nur … sondern auch, spelled N-I-C-H-T- -N-U-R- -…- -S-O-N-D-E-R-N- -A-U-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nicht bloß … vielmehr
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 “nicht nur … sondern auch”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is N-I-C-H-T- -N-U-R- -…- -S-O-N-D-E-R-N- -A-U-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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