nest egg
"nest-egg" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nest egg” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A natural or artificial egg placed in a bird's nest, to encourage the bird to lay its own eggs there.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nest-egg · nest egg · English
nest egg · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | nest egg |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nest egg” in English
Rare enough to double-check
nest egg is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
nest egg has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is nest egg, spelled N-E-S-T- -E-G-G.
Definition
- 1A natural or artificial egg placed in a bird's nest, to encourage the bird to lay its own eggs there.
- 2A saving; a reserve of money.
- 3An egg squash.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nest egg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My improvement relates to artificial eggs composed of a substance which is offensive to insects, the object being to render the same effective, not only as a nest-egg, but also as a destroyer of vermin.
Over time, they accumulated a tidy nest egg and retired comfortably.
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.