neighborly
adjective
neighborly is an adjective meaning “US standard spelling of neighbourly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-I-G-H-B-O-R-L-Y and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does neighborly mean?
adjective
- 1
USUS standard spelling of neighbourly.
He's very neighborly: he always collects my mail when I'm away on vacation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce neighborly?
Neighborly 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).
Forms of neighborly
- neighborlier comparative
- neighborliest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is neighborly?
Neighborly appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st 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).
Where does neighborly come from?
From neighbor + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).