neighborhood
/ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd/noun
neighborhood is spelled N-E-I-G-H-B-O-R-H-O-O-D. The wrong spelling people search most is neigborhood: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 137 of all searches for the word. Neighborhood is a noun meaning “The residential area near one's home”. The plural of neighborhood is neighborhoods.
How many letters and syllables are in neighborhood?
| Letters | 12: N-E-I-G-H-B-O-R-H-O-O-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 32 times per million words; the 2,992nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, neigborhood, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell neighborhood?
Neighborhood is spelled N-E-I-G-H-B-O-R-H-O-O-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 138 of the searches for neighborhood in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is neighborhood?
Neighborhood appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,992nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce neighborhood?
- UK /ˈneɪbə.hʊd/
- US /ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd/
Neighborhood has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-neighborhood.ogg, En-us-neighbourhood.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with neighborhood?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as neighborhood from its last stressed vowel (/eɪbəɹhʊd/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of neighborhood
- neighborhoods plural
- neighbourhood UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does neighborhood mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
USThe residential area near one's home.
He lives in my neighborhood.
- 2
USThe inhabitants of a residential area.
The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
- 3
USA formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.
- 4
USAn approximate amount.
He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
- 5
USThe quality of physical proximity.
The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
- 6
USobsoleteThe quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.
Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
- 7
USdatedClose proximity; nearness.
- 8
USobsoleteThe disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate neighborhood?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of neighborhood: nbhd.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Neighborhood in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | vizinhança , bairro |
| French | voisinage, environs, quartier |
| German | Nachbarschaft, Umgebung, Kiez, Viertel, Quartier, Stadtteil |
| Spanish | vecindad, barrio, vecindario, cercanía |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does neighborhood come from?
From an alteration of earlier neighborred (“neighborhood”), from Middle English neȝeburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor + -red; the term being interpreted as neighbor + -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).