NIST
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The verdict
“NIST” is uncommon German (frequency #81,927 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,927
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - National Institute of Standards and Technology – Nationales Institut für Standards und Technologie
Corpus desk
Index DE-nist · NIST · German
NIST · rank #81,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,927
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH niederlegte
Nearest frequency peer: niederlegte (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „NIST“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- nichtlineare
nichtlineare
18,077 corpus weight
- nichtssagen…
nichtssagenden
18,076 corpus weight
- niederlegte
niederlegte
18,075 corpus weight
- NIST
NIST
18,074 corpus weight
- Nordafrikas
Nordafrikas
18,071 corpus weight
- Nordgrenze
Nordgrenze
18,070 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „NIST“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | NIST |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „NIST“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
NIST is uncommon German at frequency #81,927 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "National Institute of Standards and Technology – Nationales Institut für Standards und Technologie".
NIST doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is NIST, spelled N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1National Institute of Standards and Technology – Nationales Institut für Standards und Technologie
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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