nier
[nje]
The verdict
“nier” is uncommon German (frequency #71,660 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,660
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - negieren, leugnen, abstreiten, ablehnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-nier · nier · German
nier · rank #71,660 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,660
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH newspaper
Nearest frequency peer: newspaper (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „nier“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Neurodermit…
Neurodermitis
28,343 corpus weight
- newspaper
newspaper
28,342 corpus weight
- nier
nier
28,341 corpus weight
- Nierenfunkt…
Nierenfunktion
28,340 corpus weight
- Nippeln
Nippeln
28,339 corpus weight
- Nordmann
Nordmann
28,337 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „nier“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nier |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [nje] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nier“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nier is uncommon German at frequency #71,660 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [nje]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "negieren, leugnen, abstreiten, ablehnen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for nier in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is nier, spelled N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1negieren, leugnen, abstreiten, ablehnen
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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