nish
pronoun
nish is spelled N-I-S-H: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a pronoun, nish means “Nothing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in nish?
| Letters | 4: N-I-S-H |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 62,179th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is nish?
Nish appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th 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 nish?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-nish.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with nish?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as nish.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: shin, sinh.
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 nish mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
pronoun
- 1
UKslangNothing.
noun
- 1
informalClipping of Anishinaabe/Nishnaabe.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does nish come from?
Borrowed from Polari, originally from German nichts (“nothing”) or Yiddish נישט (nisht, “no, not”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).