nm
The verdict
“nm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,940) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,940
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Einheitensymbol für Nanometer. 1 nm = 10⁻⁹ m.
Corpus desk
Index DE-nm · nm · German
nm · rank #11,940 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,940
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Neuss
Nearest frequency peer: Neuss (-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 „nm“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Nancy
Nancy
88,064 corpus weight
- Nationalsoz…
Nationalsozialisten
88,063 corpus weight
- Neuss
Neuss
88,062 corpus weight
- nm
nm
88,061 corpus weight
- näheren
näheren
88,060 corpus weight
- Oberbayern
Oberbayern
88,059 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „nm“ 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 | nm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „nm“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nm is neighbouring look-alikes ("NS", "NT", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #11,940 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Einheitensymbol für Nanometer. 1 nm = 10⁻⁹ m.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nm, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NS", "NT", "Np", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is nm, spelled N-M.
Definition
- 1Einheitensymbol für Nanometer. 1 nm = 10⁻⁹ m.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 μm = 1.000 nm.
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.