Nico
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The verdict
“Nico” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,428. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,428
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - niederländischer männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-nico · Nico · German
Nico · rank #8,428 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,428
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH netzwerken
Nearest frequency peer: netzwerken (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Nico“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- nebst
nebst
91,576 corpus weight
- Nest
Nest
91,575 corpus weight
- netzwerken
netzwerken
91,574 corpus weight
- Nico
Nico
91,573 corpus weight
- Niederländi…
Niederländischen
91,572 corpus weight
- Niederöster…
Niederösterreich
91,571 corpus weight
What this shows „Nico“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Nico |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Nico“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Nico (IPA […]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #8,428 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "niederländischer männlicher Vorname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nico, with forms such as "inco", "ncio", and "nicco". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nie", "nix", "nit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Nico, spelled N-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1niederländischer männlicher Vorname
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inco
- ncio
- nicco
- nioc
- nnico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Nico - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Nico", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).