nawab
/nəˈwɑːb/
"nawab" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nawab” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,219. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,219
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nawab · nawab · English
nawab · rank #47,219 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,219
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH NCT
Nearest frequency peer: NCT (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “nawab”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Nagano
Nagano
52,786 corpus weight
- nawab
nawab
52,782 corpus weight
- NCT
NCT
52,781 corpus weight
- Nederland
Nederland
52,780 corpus weight
- neu
neu
52,779 corpus weight
- Newington
Newington
52,778 corpus weight
What this shows “nawab” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nawab |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /nəˈwɑːb/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “nawab”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around nawab (IPA /nəˈwɑːb/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,219 among 1,534 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for nawab, with forms such as "anwab", "naawb", and "nawabb". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NWA", "Nawaz", "naw", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hindi नवाब (navāb)/Urdu نواب (navāb), from Persian نوّاب (navvâb), ultimately from Arabic نُوَّاب (nuwwāb), plural of نَائِب (nāʔib, “naib”). The correct English form is nawab, spelled N-A-W-A-B.
Definition
- 1A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor.
- 2Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura (possibly a subgenus of genus Charaxes).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nawab appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Colonel Altamont, the Nawaub of Lucknow’s prime favourite, an extraordinary man, who had, it was said, embraced Mahometanism, and undergone a thousand wild and perilous adventures was at present in this country, trying to negotiate with the Begum Clavering, the sale of the Nawaub’s celebrated nose-ring diamond, ‘the light of the Dewan.’
The nawabs of Bhopal, Ranput, Murshidabad, and Dhaka, along with the nizam of Hyderabad, all affirmed that the sultan has misled Muslims with his “erroneous” call to jihad and insisted that Indian Muslims had a duty to support Great Britain.
Etymology
From Hindi नवाब (navāb)/Urdu نواب (navāb), from Persian نوّاب (navvâb), ultimately from Arabic نُوَّاب (nuwwāb), plural of نَائِب (nāʔib, “naib”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anwab
- naawb
- nawabb
- nawba
- nawwab
- nnawab
- nwaab
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nawab - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).