Nenets
/ˈnɛnɪts/noun
Nenets is a noun meaning “A member of a people who live in the extreme northwest of Russia; a Samoyed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-N-E-T-S, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Nenets mean?
noun
- 1
A member of a people who live in the extreme northwest of Russia; a Samoyed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Nenets?
- /ˈnɛnɪts/
- /ˈneɪnɪts/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Aika77-Nenets.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is Nenets?
Nenets appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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).
Nenets in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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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 Nenets come from?
Borrowed from Russian ненец (nenec).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).