Nische
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,373
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
Nische is aGermannoun. It means: Einbuchtung, Vertiefung in einer Wand Pronounced [ˈniːʃə]. Often confused with Nischen and nich.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nische |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈniːʃə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Nische is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈniːʃə]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,373 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nische, with forms such as "insche", "nicshe", and "niscche". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Nischen", "nich", "nice", 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 Nische, spelled N-I-S-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Einbuchtung, Vertiefung in einer Wand
- 2kleine Raumerweiterung
- 3kleiner geschützter Bereich, in dem man sich unbehelligt von Konkurrenz aufhalten, entfalten kann
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: insche,nicshe,niscche,nisceh,nischhe,nishce,nissche,nnische,nsiche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Nische"
Frequency rank: #14,373 in German
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