nereid
ne·reid/ˈnɪəɹiɪd/noun
nereid is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Nereid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-R-E-I-D and has 2 syllables (ne·reid), and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nereid is nereids or nereides.
What does nereid mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of Nereid.
- 2
A youthful and pretty bather.
- 3
Alternative form of nereidid.
noun
- 1
Any one of the fifty sea-nymphs who were daughters of the sea-god Nereus and attendants upon Poseidon (Neptune), and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes in human form and sometimes with the tail of a fish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce nereid?
- /ˈnɪəɹiɪd/
Nereid has 2 syllables, split ne·reid in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-Nereid.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of nereid
- nereids plural
- nereides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nereid?
Nereid appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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).
Nereid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense mythological being:
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 nereid come from?
See Nereid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).