NME
"nme" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“NME” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,279) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,279
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of New Musical Express.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nme · NME · English
NME · rank #43,279 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,279
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH neuromuscular
Nearest frequency peer: neuromuscular (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “NME”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mucosa
mucosa
56,731 corpus weight
- Natalya
Natalya
56,726 corpus weight
- neuromuscul…
neuromuscular
56,723 corpus weight
- NME
NME
56,722 corpus weight
- nome
nome
56,718 corpus weight
- Nunez
Nunez
56,714 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “NME” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | NME |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “NME” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for NME is neighbouring look-alikes ("NZ", "NT", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #43,279 among 1,534 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of New Musical Express.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for NME, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NZ", "NT", "NP", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is NME, spelled N-M-E.
Definition
- 1Initialism of New Musical Express.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how NME appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
MGMT spoke to NME back in February about their latest album, ‘Loss Of Life’, which came out on February 23. […] In a four-star review of the album, NME said: “‘Loss of Life’ is imbued with just enough sweetness that by the time it reaches its overarching message – “nothing prepares you for loss of life” – it doesn’t just make you want to prepare yourself,…
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
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- "NME" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "NZ". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #43,279 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.