nit
[nɪt]
The verdict
“nit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,169) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,169
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nisse
Corpus desk
Index DE-nit · nit · German
nit · rank #15,169 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,169
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Neuhaus
Nearest frequency peer: Neuhaus (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „nit“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
What this shows Balken platzieren „nit“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | nit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [nɪt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „nit“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nit is neighbouring look-alikes ("NS", "nm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [nɪt]. Frequency #15,169 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Nisse".
nit has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NS", "nm", "NL", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is nit, spelled N-I-T.
Definition
- 1Nisse
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A special shampoo is needed to wash off head lice and nits.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).