Nord
[nɔʁt]
The verdict
“Nord” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #2,355. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,355
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Haupthimmelsrichtung Norden
Corpus desk
Index DE-nord · Nord · German
Nord · rank #2,355 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,355
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH niemanden
Nearest frequency peer: niemanden (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Nord“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Mühe
Mühe
97,649 corpus weight
- nah
nah
97,648 corpus weight
- niemanden
niemanden
97,647 corpus weight
- Nord
Nord
97,646 corpus weight
- Ost
Ost
97,645 corpus weight
- privat
privat
97,644 corpus weight
What this shows „Nord“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Nord |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [nɔʁt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Nord“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Nord (IPA [nɔʁt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,355 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nord, with forms such as "nnord", "nodr", and "nordd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nur", "Not", "NRW", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Nord, spelled N-O-R-D.
Definition
- 1die Haupthimmelsrichtung Norden
- 2Nachsatz zu einem Toponym oder diesem mit Bindestrich nachgestellt
- 3eine Partei, die man mit Norden verbindet, zum Beispiel Nordamerika oder eine Partei im Bridge; Namenszusatz, der auf die Lage hinweist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nord appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Und weiter mit Kurs Nord so lange der Wind mitspielt.
An der Autobahnauffahrt Potsdam-Nord solltet ihr abfahren.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnord
- nodr
- nordd
- norrd
- nrod
- onrd
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Nord - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Nord", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).