NDE
"nde" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“NDE” is uncommon English (frequency #66,864 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,864
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of near-death experience.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nde · NDE · English
NDE · rank #66,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,864
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH needlepoint
Nearest frequency peer: needlepoint (+3 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.
Long-tail ranks near “NDE”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- municipally
municipally
33,145 corpus weight
- Musselburgh
Musselburgh
33,144 corpus weight
- Nakano
Nakano
33,142 corpus weight
- NDE
NDE
33,137 corpus weight
- needlepoint
needlepoint
33,134 corpus weight
- neuralgia
neuralgia
33,133 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “NDE” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | NDE |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #66,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “NDE” in English
Rare enough to double-check
NDE is uncommon English at frequency #66,864 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for NDE in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is NDE, spelled N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Initialism of near-death experience.
- 2Initialism of nondestructive evaluation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how NDE appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ring sees both the NDE and UFOE as modern day shamanic initiations in which the journeyer (NDEer or UFOer) enters an "imaginal" reality, an alternative reality that coexists with physical reality and that is equally real.
However, Dr Rommer believed that despite the NDEs being distressing, it still had positive, life-changing effects such as the NDEr becoming less judgemental and feeling an increased love of life and heightened sense of morality.
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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