nickkoppen
[ˈnɪkˌkɔpn̩]
The verdict
“nickkoppen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (zur Bejahung, Zustimmung, als Geste des Verstehens, als Gruß oder dergleichen) den Kopf kurz hintereinander senken und heben
Corpus desk
Index DE-nickkoppen · nickkoppen · German
nickkoppen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nickkoppen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈnɪkˌkɔpn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nickkoppen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nickkoppen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈnɪkˌkɔpn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(zur Bejahung, Zustimmung, als Geste des Verstehens, als Gruß oder dergleichen) den Kopf kurz hintereinander senken und heben".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nickkoppen, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 nickkoppen, spelled N-I-C-K-K-O-P-P-E-N.
Definition
- 1(zur Bejahung, Zustimmung, als Geste des Verstehens, als Gruß oder dergleichen) den Kopf kurz hintereinander senken und heben
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nickkoppen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Hermen brummte; er war kein Freund vom vielen Reden, aber er nickkoppte wenigſtens, damit ſeine Frau nicht, wie jeden Tag zwölfmal, ihn in die Rippen ſtieß und ſagte: ‚Junge, ſei nicht ſo faulmäulſch!‘“
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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.