# naked

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈneɪkɪd/ · frequency rank #3,439

## Definitions
1. Bare, not covered by clothing.
2. Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
3. Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.
4. Involving naked people.
5. Unarmed.
6. Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
7. Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
8. Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
9. Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
10. Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
11. Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
12. Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
13. Lacking resources or means, poor.
14. Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of].
15. Blank, clean, empty.
16. Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
17. Not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.

## Etymology
From Middle English naked, from Old English nacod, from Proto-West Germanic *nak(k)wad, from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“naked”). Doublet of nude (remotely).

## Easily confused with
- **ned** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-ned)
- **need** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-need)
- **name** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-name)
- **Nike** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-nike)
- **Nate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-nate)
- **nuke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-nuke)
- **nave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-nave)
- **nape** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-nape)
- **NAND** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-nand)
- **named** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-named)
- **names** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-names)
- **noted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-noted)
- **nosed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-nosed)
- **nukes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-nukes)
- **navel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-navel)
- **necked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-necked)
- **nicked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naked-vs-nicked)
- **nad** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nad-vs-naked)
- **naka** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/naka-vs-naked)
- **nailed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nailed-vs-naked)

## Common misspellings (7)
`anked`, `naekd`, `nakde`, `nakedd`, `nakked`, `nkaed`, `nnaked`

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