nuisance
[ˈnjuːsns]
The verdict
“nuisance” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas, was nervt oder Probleme verursacht: Ärgernis, Plage, Missstand; Plagegeist, Nervensäge
Corpus desk
Index DE-nuisance · nuisance · German
nuisance · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nuisance |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnjuːsns] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nuisance“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nuisance is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈnjuːsns]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for nuisance in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is nuisance, spelled N-U-I-S-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1etwas, was nervt oder Probleme verursacht: Ärgernis, Plage, Missstand; Plagegeist, Nervensäge
- 2Verhalten, für das man jemanden vor Gericht bringen kann: Belästigung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nuisance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These mosquitos are a bit of a nuisance.
I'm staying in a hotel at the moment, what's a bit of a nuisance, but in return I only have a five minute walk to work.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.