noil
/nɔɪl/noun
noil is spelled N-O-I-L: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, noil means “A short fibre left over from combing wool or spinning silk during the preparation of textile yarns” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of noil is noils.
How many letters and syllables are in noil?
| Letters | 4: N-O-I-L |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 44 million words; the 204,233rd 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 noil?
Noil appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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 noil?
- /nɔɪl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-noil.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with noil?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as noil.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: lion, lino, loin.
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).
Forms of noil
- noils plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does noil mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A short fibre left over from combing wool or spinning silk during the preparation of textile yarns.
The silk noil was slightly nubby with random flecks in an off-white colour.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Noil in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense short fibre:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Kämmling |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does noil come from?
Inherited from Middle English *noyel, from Old French noiel, variant of noel, from either Early Medieval Latin nōdellus (“buckle”, diminutive of nōdus "knot") or Late Latin nucālis (“nut-like”, derivative of nux "nut"). Doublet of newel and noyau.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).