Nikolaus
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,697
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
Nikolaus is aGermannoun. It means: Figur des Weihnachtsbrauchtums nach dem Vorbild des heiligen Nikolaus, an deren Existenz die Kinder glauben sollen; sie trägt eine große Mütze und ein langes Gewand und füllt in der Nacht zum 6. De... Pronounced [ˈnɪkolaʊ̯s]. It ranks #6,697 in German word frequency. Often confused with Niklas and Nikola.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nikolaus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnɪkolaʊ̯s] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Nikolaus is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnɪkolaʊ̯s]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,697 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Nikolaus, with forms such as "inkolaus", "nikkolaus", and "nikloaus". 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, "Niklas", "Nikola", "Nicolas", 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 Nikolaus, spelled N-I-K-O-L-A-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Figur des Weihnachtsbrauchtums nach dem Vorbild des heiligen Nikolaus, an deren Existenz die Kinder glauben sollen; sie trägt eine große Mütze und ein langes Gewand und füllt in der Nacht zum 6. Dezember den Kindern Süßigkeiten in die Schuhe oder bringt ihnen andere Geschenke
- 2Person, die sich als Nikolaus^([1]) verkleidet hat und am 6. Dezember die Kinder beschenkt
- 3aus Schokolade, Marzipan oder Ähnlichem bestehende Figur, die den Nikolaus^([1]) darstellt
- 4Nikolaustag, den 6. Dezember
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inkolaus,nikkolaus,nikloaus,nikoalus,nikolasu,nikolauss,nikollaus,nikoluas,nioklaus,nkiolaus,nnikolaus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Nikolaus"
Frequency rank: #6,697 in German
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