# nexus

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈnɛksəs/ · frequency rank #12,111

## Definitions
1. A form or state of connection.
2. A form or state of connection.
3. A connected group; a network, a web.
4. A centre or focus of something.
5. In the work of the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943): a group of words expressing two concepts in one unit (such as a clause or sentence).
6. A person who had contracted a nexum or obligation of such a kind that, if they failed to pay, their creditor could compel them to work as a servant until the debt was paid; an indentured servant.

## Etymology
From Latin nexus (“connection, nexus; act of binding, tying or fastening together; something which binds, binding, bond, fastening, joint; legal obligation”), from nectō (“to attach, bind, connect, fasten, tie; to interweave; to relate; to unite; to bind by obligation, make liable, oblige; to compose, contrive, devise, produce”) + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns).

## Easily confused with
- **nous** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nexus-vs-nous)
- **NES** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nes-vs-nexus)
- **NEX** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nex-vs-nexus)
- **neu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/neu-vs-nexus)
- **next** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/next-vs-nexus)
- **news** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/news-vs-nexus)
- **nets** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nets-vs-nexus)
- **needs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/needs-vs-nexus)
- **NERDS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nerds-vs-nexus)
- **nears** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nears-vs-nexus)
- **Nevis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nevis-vs-nexus)

## Common misspellings (7)
`enxus`, `neuxs`, `nexsu`, `nexuss`, `nexxus`, `nnexus`, `nxeus`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/nexus