nuisance
Letters
8 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
nuisance is aGermannoun. It means: etwas, was nervt oder Probleme verursacht: Ärgernis, Plage, Missstand; Plagegeist, Nervensäge Pronounced [ˈnjuːsns].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nuisance |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnjuːsns] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for nuisance is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnjuːsns]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for nuisance in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is nuisance, spelled N-U-I-S-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas, was nervt oder Probleme verursacht: Ärgernis, Plage, Missstand; Plagegeist, Nervensäge
- 2Verhalten, für das man jemanden vor Gericht bringen kann: Belästigung
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