necker
"necker" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“necker” is uncommon English (frequency #68,479 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,479
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who kisses primarily in the neck; a neck kisser.
Corpus desk
Index EN-necker · necker · English
necker · rank #68,479 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,479
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH narwhal
Nearest frequency peer: narwhal (-2 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 “necker”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Nadeem
Nadeem
31,529 corpus weight
- Nahi
Nahi
31,527 corpus weight
- narwhal
narwhal
31,524 corpus weight
- necker
necker
31,522 corpus weight
- neurosurgic…
neurosurgical
31,520 corpus weight
- niet
niet
31,517 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “necker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | necker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “necker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
necker is uncommon English at frequency #68,479 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who kisses primarily in the neck; a neck kisser.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for necker in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From neck + -er, from the verb. The correct English form is necker, spelled N-E-C-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Someone who kisses primarily in the neck; a neck kisser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how necker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1931, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Big Money', Herbert Jenkins: London, page 195. "A nice girl like you! A girl who has always prided herself on her fastidiousness. A girl who could never understand how other girls in her set could make themselves cheap and let themselves be pawed about—Ugh!" said Conscience witheringly. "Necker!" Ann shuddered. "Yes, Necker!...
We all ate at the Liberty Grill, and then Bernice and I drove her family's Pontiac upriver, to a hill overlooking Tongue Point, where plenty of neckers were fogging up the windows.
Etymology
From neck + -er, from the verb.
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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