get on someone's nerves
"get-on-someone-s-nerves" is a 19-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“get on someone's nerves” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To annoy or irritate someone; to bother someone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-get-on-someone-s-nerves · get on someone's nerves · English
get on someone's nerves · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 23 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | get on someone's nerves |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “get on someone's nerves” in English
Rare enough to double-check
get on someone's nerves is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To annoy or irritate someone; to bother someone.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for get on someone's nerves in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is get on someone's nerves, spelled G-E-T- -O-N- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E-'-S- -N-E-R-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1To annoy or irritate someone; to bother someone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how get on someone's nerves appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There’s an insect buzzing around in my bedroom tonight, and it’s really getting on my nerves.
Gerty wished to goodness they would take their squalling baby home out of that and not get on her nerves...
This word in other languages
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.