neither … nor
"neither-nor" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“neither … nor” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a conjunction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - used for showing that something is not true of two or more people, things, actions, qualities, or ideas (This entry is a translation hub.)
Corpus desk
Index EN-neither-nor · neither … nor · English
neither … nor · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neither … nor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “neither … nor” in English
Rare enough to double-check
neither … nor is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aconjunction. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "used for showing that something is not true of two or more people, things, actions, qualities, or ideas (This entry is a translation hub.)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for neither … nor, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is neither … nor, spelled N-E-I-T-H-E-R- -…- -N-O-R.
Definition
- 1used for showing that something is not true of two or more people, things, actions, qualities, or ideas (This entry is a translation hub.)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how neither … nor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She was neither learned nor intelligent, but she contrived to dress both herself and her daughter out of a meagre jointure, supplying with her clever fingers what her purse could not buy;[…].
Ninety-nine out of a hundred of them could neither read nor write.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.