nevertheless
/ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/adverb
nevertheless is spelled N-E-V-E-R-T-H-E-L-E-S-S. The wrong spelling people search most is neverthless: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 82 of all searches for the word. Nevertheless is an adverb meaning “In spite of what preceded; yet”.
How many letters and syllables are in nevertheless?
| Letters | 12: N-E-V-E-R-T-H-E-L-E-S-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,667th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, neverthless, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell nevertheless?
Nevertheless is spelled N-E-V-E-R-T-H-E-L-E-S-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 82 of the searches for nevertheless 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 nevertheless?
Nevertheless appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th 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 nevertheless?
- UK /ˌnɛvəðəˈlɛs/
- US /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/
Nevertheless has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-nevertheless.ogg, En-us-nevertheless.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with nevertheless
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with nevertheless?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as nevertheless from its last stressed vowel (/ɛs/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does nevertheless mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
In spite of what preceded; yet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Nevertheless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in spite of what preceded:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cependant, pourtant, néanmoins, toutefois, nonobstant, malgré tout |
| German | jedoch, allerdings, nichtsdestoweniger, trotzdem, dennoch, unbenommen |
| Portuguese | no entanto, entretanto, não obstante, contudo, apesar de, de qualquer jeito |
| Spanish | sin embargo, no obstante, mas, empero, a pesar de ello, pese a ello |
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 nevertheless come from?
From Middle English nevertheles, never-þe-les, nevere-þe-lesse. By surface analysis, never (“not at all”) + the + less; compare never the wiser.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).