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

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „nobis“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for nobis
PropertyValue
Headwordnobis
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPronoun
IPA[…]
Letters5
Frequency rank#56,387
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „nobis“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.nobisfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Nikolas“ (#56,386), „noe“ (#56,388), „niedergeschossen“ (#56,385). Unter 1,954 „N“-Lemmata liegt „nobis“ bei #56,387. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Personalpronomen 1. Person Plural Dativ: uns
  2. 2
    Personalpronomen 1. Person Plural Ablativ: von uns

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how nobis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nobis"?
"nobis" is spelled N-O-B-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "nobis" mean?
As a pronoun, "nobis" means: Personalpronomen 1. Person Plural Dativ: uns
How do you pronounce "nobis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nobis" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nobis" come from?
"nobis" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nobis", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list