NL
The verdict
“NL” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,641) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,641
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nationalliga
Corpus desk
Index DE-nl · NL · German
NL · rank #14,641 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,641
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH niedrigere
Nearest frequency peer: niedrigere (-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 „NL“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Nickel
Nickel
85,363 corpus weight
- Niederrhein
Niederrhein
85,362 corpus weight
- niedrigere
niedrigere
85,361 corpus weight
- NL
NL
85,360 corpus weight
- Nordafrika
Nordafrika
85,359 corpus weight
- Olga
Olga
85,358 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „NL“ 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 | NL |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „NL“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for NL is neighbouring look-alikes ("NS", "nm", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #14,641 among 1,954 “N” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for NL, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NS", "nm", "NT", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is NL, spelled N-L.
Definition
- 1Nationalliga
- 2Niederlande
- 3Niederlassung
- 4Niederlausitz
- 5Niedersachsen, Landesregierung / Landtag
- 6Normenausschuss Luft- und Raumfahrt im Deutschen Institut für Normung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how NL appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Uns überholten viele Campinghänger mit dem Kennzeichen NL.
Diesen Auftrag übernimmt NL Süd.
This word in other languages
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.