NN
German, noun
NN is spelled N-N (2 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written German, the 16,945th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). NN is a German noun meaning “initialism of Normalnull” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does NN mean in English?
noun
- 1
initialism of Normalnull
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. Nachnahme 2. Normalnull 3. nomen nominandum/nomen nescio – Platzhalter für einen noch nicht bekannten Namen einer Person 4. Nürnberger Nachrichten
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of NN
- N. N. alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is NN in German?
NN appears 3.2 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).