nobis
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The verdict
“nobis” is uncommon German (frequency #56,387 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,387
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personalpronomen 1. Person Plural Dativ: uns
Corpus desk
Index DE-nobis · nobis · German
nobis · rank #56,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,387
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Nikolas
Nearest frequency peer: Nikolas (-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 „nobis“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- niedergesch…
niedergeschossen
43,616 corpus weight
- Nikolas
Nikolas
43,615 corpus weight
- nobis
nobis
43,614 corpus weight
- noe
noe
43,613 corpus weight
- nostalgische
nostalgische
43,612 corpus weight
- Notare
Notare
43,611 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „nobis“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nobis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nobis“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nobis is uncommon German at frequency #56,387 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nobis, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is nobis, spelled N-O-B-I-S.
Definition
- 1Personalpronomen 1. Person Plural Dativ: uns
- 2Personalpronomen 1. Person Plural Ablativ: von uns
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nobis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
dona nobis pacem = "schenk uns Frieden"
Antonyms
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.
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