nie und nimmer

/[niː ʊnt ˈnɪmɐ]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

German

word origin

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0

tracked variants

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nie und nimmer is aGermanphrase. It means: zu keinem Zeitpunkt, auf keinen Fall Pronounced [niː ʊnt ˈnɪmɐ].

Key facts for nie und nimmer
PropertyValue
Headwordnie und nimmer
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[niː ʊnt ˈnɪmɐ]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

nie und nimmer is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for nie und nimmer is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [niː ʊnt ˈnɪmɐ]. 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: "zu keinem Zeitpunkt, auf keinen Fall".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for nie und nimmer in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 nie und nimmer, spelled N-I-E- -U-N-D- -N-I-M-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    zu keinem Zeitpunkt, auf keinen Fall

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How do you spell "nie und nimmer"?
"nie und nimmer" is spelled N-I-E- -U-N-D- -N-I-M-M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [niː ʊnt ˈnɪmɐ].
What does "nie und nimmer" mean?
As a phrase, "nie und nimmer" means: zu keinem Zeitpunkt, auf keinen Fall
How do you pronounce "nie und nimmer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nie und nimmer" is [niː ʊnt ˈnɪmɐ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nie und nimmer" come from?
"nie und nimmer" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.