English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 171 of 488
A business district of Chūō, Tokyo prefecture, Japan, surrounding a famous bridge of the same name
paintings made in a traditional Japanese style, typically executed with brushes on washi paper or silk
A genre of texts that focus on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity and how Japan and the Japanese should be understood.
Of or pertaining to Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950), Russian ballet dancer and choreographer.
A New Zealand palm, Rhopalostylis sapida, with edible pith and leaves used for building and thatching.
A trigonal-rhombohedral green mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, sodium, and sulfur.
overseas ethnic Japanese person (usually has no Japanese citizenship living as citizens of other countries as immigrants or descendants of Japanese immigrants)
A Japanese stock market index; normally refers to the Nikkei 225, which is calculated by aggregating the share prices of 225 large Japanese companies quoted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and thus reflects the performance of major Japanese businesses.
A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νικόλαος (Nikólaos) used in Greece. The equivalent female name is Nikoleta.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter N contains 24,391 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 488 pages, and you are currently viewing page 171. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "N" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.