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nall

/nɔːl/obsolete

nall is spelled N-A-L-L: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nall means “An awl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nall is nalls.

How many letters and syllables are in nall?

Letters4: N-A-L-L
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 101,613th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is nall?

Nall appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce nall?

  • /nɔːl/

Nall has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does nall mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    UKobsoleteAn awl.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does nall come from?

From Middle English a nal (“an awl”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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