niese
[ˈniːzə]
The verdict
“niese” is uncommon German (frequency #80,739 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,739
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs niesen
Corpus desk
Index DE-niese · niese · German
niese · rank #80,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,739
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH niedersächsis…
Nearest frequency peer: niedersächsischer (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “niese”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Nichtigkeit…
Nichtigkeiten
19,266 corpus weight
- Niederschla…
Niederschlagsmenge
19,264 corpus weight
- niedersächs…
niedersächsischer
19,263 corpus weight
- niese
niese
19,262 corpus weight
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niveaulos
19,260 corpus weight
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noodles
19,257 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “niese” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | niese |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈniːzə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “niese” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
niese is uncommon German at frequency #80,739 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈniːzə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for niese in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 niese, spelled N-I-E-S-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs niesen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs niesen
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs niesen
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs niesen
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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