nurse
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The verdict
“nurse” is uncommon German (frequency #81,937 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,937
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Krankenschwester, Krankenpfleger
Corpus desk
Index DE-nurse · nurse · German
nurse · rank #81,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,937
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Nullstellen
Nearest frequency peer: Nullstellen (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „nurse“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Notdurft
Notdurft
18,067 corpus weight
- Notfallsani…
Notfallsanitäter
18,066 corpus weight
- Nullstellen
Nullstellen
18,065 corpus weight
- nurse
nurse
18,064 corpus weight
- oberirdische
oberirdische
18,062 corpus weight
- Oberleitung…
Oberleitungen
18,061 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „nurse“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nurse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „nurse“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
nurse is uncommon German at frequency #81,937 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Krankenschwester, Krankenpfleger".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for nurse, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is nurse, spelled N-U-R-S-E.
Definition
- 1Krankenschwester, Krankenpfleger
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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