neem
/niːm/
"neem" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“neem” is uncommon English (frequency #57,593 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,593
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield neem oil, the insecticide azadirachtin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-neem · neem · English
neem · rank #57,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,593
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Neuman
Nearest frequency peer: Neuman (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “neem”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Nagaland
Nagaland
42,415 corpus weight
- neem
neem
42,408 corpus weight
- Neuman
Neuman
42,407 corpus weight
- neutralise
neutralise
42,406 corpus weight
- Nikolas
Nikolas
42,404 corpus weight
- Nimoy
Nimoy
42,403 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “neem” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neem |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /niːm/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “neem” in English
Rare enough to double-check
neem is uncommon English at frequency #57,593 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /niːm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield neem oil, the insecticide azadirachtin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for neem in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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: Borrowed from Hindi नीम (nīm) / Urdu نِیم (nīm), from Sanskrit निम्ब (nimba). The correct English form is neem, spelled N-E-E-M.
Definition
- 1Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield neem oil, the insecticide azadirachtin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how neem appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was standing at the gate, rubbing his teeth with a twig broken from a neem tree – which is what many poor people in my country do, Mr Premier, when they want to clean their teeth.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi नीम (nīm) / Urdu نِیم (nīm), from Sanskrit निम्ब (nimba).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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