neer
"neer" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“neer” is uncommon English (frequency #82,586 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,586
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (anatomy) Kidney.
Corpus desk
Index EN-neer · neer · English
neer · rank #82,586 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,586
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Nederlands
Nearest frequency peer: Nederlands (-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 “neer”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nares
nares
17,420 corpus weight
- naughtiness
naughtiness
17,418 corpus weight
- Navidad
Navidad
17,417 corpus weight
- Nederlands
Nederlands
17,416 corpus weight
- neer
neer
17,415 corpus weight
- neighbourly
neighbourly
17,413 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “neer” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “neer” in English
Rare enough to double-check
neer is uncommon English at frequency #82,586 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(anatomy) Kidney.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for neer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English neere, nere, from Old English *nēora, from Proto-Germanic *neurô, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós. Cognate with Dutch nier (“kidney”), Low German nere (“kidney”), German Niere (“kidney”), Swedish njure (“kidney”), Icelandic nýru (“kid… The correct English form is neer, spelled N-E-E-R.
Definition
- 1(anatomy) Kidney.
Etymology
From Middle English neere, nere, from Old English *nēora, from Proto-Germanic *neurô, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós. Cognate with Dutch nier (“kidney”), Low German nere (“kidney”), German Niere (“kidney”), Swedish njure (“kidney”), Icelandic nýru (“kidney”), Latin nefrones, nefrendes, nebrundines (“testicles”), Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney, testicle”).
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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