Nicosia
[nɪkəˈsɪə]
The verdict
“Nicosia” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauptstadt von Zypern; Nikosia
Corpus desk
Index DE-nicosia · Nicosia · German
Nicosia · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | Nicosia |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [nɪkəˈsɪə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Nicosia“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Nicosia is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [nɪkəˈsɪə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hauptstadt von Zypern; Nikosia".
Nicosia has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Nicosia, spelled N-I-C-O-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt von Zypern; Nikosia
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Nicosia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nicosia is the capital of Cyprus.
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.