Nisan
/niːˈsɑːn/
"nisan" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Nisan” is uncommon English (frequency #97,359 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,359
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nisan · Nisan · English
Nisan · rank #97,359 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,359
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH nightdress
Nearest frequency peer: nightdress (-3 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 “Nisan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Neuwirth
Neuwirth
2,649 corpus weight
- nightdress
nightdress
2,645 corpus weight
- Nisan
Nisan
2,642 corpus weight
- NMP
NMP
2,639 corpus weight
- Nobbs
Nobbs
2,638 corpus weight
- Nobile
Nobile
2,637 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Nisan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nisan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /niːˈsɑːn/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Nisan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Nisan is uncommon English at frequency #97,359 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /niːˈsɑːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Nisan, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew נִיסָן (nisán). The correct English form is Nisan, spelled N-I-S-A-N.
Definition
- 1The seventh month of the civil year and the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Adar and before Iyar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Nisan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Micky Vayner shrugged; as far as he knew, it was, by the lunar calendar, an ordinary day in the month of Nisan.
Etymology
From Hebrew נִיסָן (nisán).
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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