Nymphe
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,888
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Nymphe is aGermannoun. It means: weiblicher, meist anmutiger Naturgeist; Personifikation von Naturkräften; niedere Gottheit Pronounced [ˈnʏmfə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nymphe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnʏmfə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Nymphe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnʏmfə]. Corpus data places it at rank #46,888 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Nymphe, with forms such as "nmyphe", "nnymphe", and "nymhpe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 Nymphe, spelled N-Y-M-P-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1weiblicher, meist anmutiger Naturgeist; Personifikation von Naturkräften; niedere Gottheit
- 2Jungtiere einiger Insekten im zweiten Entwicklungsstadium zwischen Larve und Puppe, das bereits Anlagen zu Flügel aufweist
- 3junges Mädchen oder Frau, das einerseits kindlich und unschuldig, andererseits erotisch verführerisch wirkt
- 4kleine Schamlippe
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nmyphe,nnymphe,nymhpe,nymmphe,nympeh,nymphhe,nympphe,nypmhe,nyymphe,ynmphe
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Misspelling Variants of "Nymphe"
Frequency rank: #46,888 in German
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Nearby German words
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