Nippel
[ˈnɪpl̩]
The verdict
“Nippel” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,016. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,016
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kurzes Rohrverbindungsstück, mit kleinerem Außendurchmesser, für Rohrmuffen, mit passend, größerem Innendurchmesser
Corpus desk
Index DE-nippel · Nippel · German
Nippel · rank #20,016 · 7 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,016
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Niederschläge
Nearest frequency peer: Niederschläge (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Nippel“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Neumünster
Neumünster
79,988 corpus weight
- Nichtraucher
Nichtraucher
79,987 corpus weight
- Niederschlä…
Niederschläge
79,986 corpus weight
- Nippel
Nippel
79,985 corpus weight
- nothing
nothing
79,984 corpus weight
- Nylon
Nylon
79,983 corpus weight
What this shows „Nippel“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nippel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnɪpl̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Nippel“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Nippel (IPA [ˈnɪpl̩]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,016 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nippel, with forms such as "inppel", "nipel", and "nipepl". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Nippes", "Nigel", "Neapel", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Nippel, spelled N-I-P-P-E-L.
Definition
- 1kurzes Rohrverbindungsstück, mit kleinerem Außendurchmesser, für Rohrmuffen, mit passend, größerem Innendurchmesser
- 2Brustwarze
- 3etwas, das irgendwo heraussteht und dessen Namen man nicht kennt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nippel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zu den Gewindefittings gehören auch Nippel.
Man sieht ja ihre Nippel durch das T-Shirt!
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inppel
- nipel
- nipepl
- nippell
- nipple
- nnippel
- npipel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Nippel - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Nippel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).