nut
[nuːt]
The verdict
“nut” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,531) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,531
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs nuten
Corpus desk
Index DE-nut · nut · German
nut · rank #36,531 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,531
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH notice
Nearest frequency peer: notice (-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 „nut“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- nordöstlich…
nordöstlichen
63,473 corpus weight
- norwegisch
norwegisch
63,472 corpus weight
- notice
notice
63,471 corpus weight
- nut
nut
63,470 corpus weight
- nötigste
nötigste
63,468 corpus weight
- Oboe
Oboe
63,467 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „nut“ 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 | nut |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [nuːt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „nut“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nut is neighbouring look-alikes ("ny", "NVA", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [nuːt]. Frequency #36,531 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs nuten".
No generated misspelling entries exist for nut in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ny", "NVA", "nutzt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is nut, spelled N-U-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs nuten
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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