bundle of nerves
"bundle-of-nerves" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bundle of nerves” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person with an especially nervous, excitable, or fearful disposition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bundle of nerves |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bundle of nerves” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bundle of nerves is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bundle of nerves, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is bundle of nerves, spelled B-U-N-D-L-E- -O-F- -N-E-R-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1A person with an especially nervous, excitable, or fearful disposition.
- 2A lively, continually active person.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bundle of nerves”
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- The one correct English spelling is B-U-N-D-L-E- -O-F- -N-E-R-V-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.