# nicked vs Nikkei

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### nicked
*verb · IPA /nɪkt/ · frequency rank #40,359*
simple past and past participle of nick

### Nikkei
*noun · IPA /ˈniːkeɪ/ · frequency rank #44,963*
overseas ethnic Japanese person (usually has no Japanese citizenship living as citizens of other countries as immigrants or descendants of Japanese immigrants)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nicked-vs-nikkei