Non-profit or nonprofit?
non-profit is an adjective meaning “Alternative form of nonprofit”; nonprofit is an adjective meaning “Not seeking to produce a profit (a financial gain)”. non-profit is written with a hyphen and nonprofit as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between non-profit and nonprofit?
| non-profit | nonprofit | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective, noun | adjective, noun |
| Meaning | Alternative form of nonprofit | Not seeking to produce a profit (a financial gain) |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | 7.2 times per million words |
Sources: non-profit and nonprofit in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of non-profit and nonprofit
non-profit
- 1
Alternative form of nonprofit
- 2
Alternative form of nonprofit
nonprofit
- 1
Not seeking to produce a profit (a financial gain)
- 2
Ellipsis of nonprofit organization (“an organization that exists for reasons other than to make a profit, such as a charitable, educational or service organization”)
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, non-profit or nonprofit?
non-profit is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; nonprofit 7.2 times per million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search non-profit vs nonprofit?
“non-profit vs nonprofit” is searched about 10 times a month on Bing (Google reports it together with close variants, so it has no figure of its own) in the United States.
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.