non
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The verdict
“non” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,204) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,204
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nicht
Corpus desk
Index DE-non · non · German
non · rank #5,204 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,204
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Moral
Nearest frequency peer: Moral (-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 „non“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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Manuel
94,800 corpus weight
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Mithilfe
94,799 corpus weight
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Moral
94,798 corpus weight
- non
non
94,797 corpus weight
- office
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94,796 corpus weight
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94,795 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „non“ 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 | non |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „non“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for non is neighbouring look-alikes ("NS", "NT", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced […]. Frequency #5,204 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "nicht".
No misspelling variants are generated for non in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NS", "NT", "Np", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is non, spelled N-O-N.
Definition
- 1nicht
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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