neighbourhood
neigh·bour·hood/ˈneɪbə.hʊd/noun
neighbourhood is spelled N-E-I-G-H-B-O-U-R-H-O-O-D, 3 syllables: neigh·bour·hood. The wrong spelling people search most is neighboorhood: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Neighbourhood is a noun meaning “British standard spelling of neighborhood”. The plural of neighbourhood is neighbourhoods.
How many letters and syllables are in neighbourhood?
| Letters | 13: N-E-I-G-H-B-O-U-R-H-O-O-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: neigh·bour·hood |
| In writing | 8.7 times per million words; the 7,797th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, neighboorhood, about 140 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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).
How do you spell neighbourhood?
Neighbourhood is spelled N-E-I-G-H-B-O-U-R-H-O-O-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for neighbourhood 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 neighbourhood?
Neighbourhood appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th 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 neighbourhood?
- UK /ˈneɪbə.hʊd/
Neighbourhood has 3 syllables, split neigh·bour·hood in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-neighbourhood.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-neighbourhood.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of neighbourhood
- neighbourhoods plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does neighbourhood mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
British standard spelling of neighborhood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does neighbourhood come from?
From neighbour + -hood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).