Nigger

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Nigger is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnɪɡɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,933 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "rassistisch beleidigende Fremdbezeichnung für eine (männliche) Person mit (sehr) dunkler Hautfarbe und vor allem afroamerikanischer, ferner auch afrodeutscher beziehungsweise subsaharischer Abstamm...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Nigger, with forms such as "ingger", "ngiger", and "nigegr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "nimmer", "Neger", "Nigel", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Nigger, spelled N-I-G-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.