nimby
/ˈnɪm.bi/
"nimby" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nimby” is uncommon English (frequency #87,608 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,608
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not in my backyard (in objection to an undesirable structure built locally).
Corpus desk
Index EN-nimby · nimby · English
nimby · rank #87,608 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,608
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH ninjutsu
Nearest frequency peer: ninjutsu (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “nimby”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Neosho
Neosho
12,398 corpus weight
- neta
neta
12,396 corpus weight
- nimby
nimby
12,393 corpus weight
- ninjutsu
ninjutsu
12,392 corpus weight
- nitrogenous
nitrogenous
12,391 corpus weight
- nondestruct…
nondestructive
12,389 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “nimby” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nimby |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈnɪm.bi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nimby” in English
Rare enough to double-check
nimby is uncommon English at frequency #87,608 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as aphrase, transcribed /ˈnɪm.bi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Not in my backyard (in objection to an undesirable structure built locally).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nimby, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Acronym of not in my back yard. More at NIMBY. The correct English form is nimby, spelled N-I-M-B-Y.
Definition
- 1Not in my backyard (in objection to an undesirable structure built locally).
Etymology
Acronym of not in my back yard. More at NIMBY.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).