nid
[niːt]
The verdict
“nid” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,185) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,185
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - süddeutsch und unterhalb
Corpus desk
Index DE-nid · nid · German
nid · rank #32,185 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,185
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Nervenzellen
Nearest frequency peer: Nervenzellen (-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 „nid“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Navigator
Navigator
67,819 corpus weight
- nel
nel
67,818 corpus weight
- Nervenzellen
Nervenzellen
67,817 corpus weight
- nid
nid
67,816 corpus weight
- nights
nights
67,815 corpus weight
- notgedrungen
notgedrungen
67,814 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „nid“ 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 | nid |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | [niːt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „nid“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nid is neighbouring look-alikes ("NS", "nm", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced [niːt]. Frequency #32,185 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "süddeutsch und unterhalb".
nid doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NS", "nm", "NL", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is nid, spelled N-I-D.
Definition
- 1süddeutsch und unterhalb
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Auch der Alzeller soll uns nid dem Wald Genossen werben und das Land erregen.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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