NT
The verdict
“NT” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,377) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,377
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Neues Testament der Bibel
Corpus desk
Index DE-nt · NT · German
NT · rank #17,377 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,377
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Notwehr
Nearest frequency peer: Notwehr (-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 „NT“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Newton
Newton
82,627 corpus weight
- Notarzt
Notarzt
82,626 corpus weight
- Notwehr
Notwehr
82,625 corpus weight
- NT
NT
82,624 corpus weight
- obliegt
obliegt
82,623 corpus weight
- Omega
Omega
82,622 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „NT“ 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 | NT |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #17,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „NT“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for NT is neighbouring look-alikes ("ny", "nur", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #17,377 among 1,954 “N” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for NT, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ny", "nur", "nun", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is NT, spelled N-T.
Definition
- 1Neues Testament der Bibel
- 2Nachrichtentechnik
- 3Normaltarif
- 4Normaltemperatur
- 5Netzteil
- 6Neutronentomografie
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how NT appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Bibel begründet selbst die Unterscheidung zwischen "altem" und "neuem" Bund / Testament: Jr 31,31 verheißt einen neuen Bund Jahwes mit seinem Volk … Das NT sieht diesen neuen Bund in Jesus Christus verwirklicht.“
Antonyms
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.