noll
/nɒl/
"noll" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“noll” is uncommon English (frequency #53,137 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,137
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The head, especially the top of the head.
Corpus desk
Index EN-noll · noll · English
noll · rank #53,137 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,137
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Niven
Nearest frequency peer: Niven (-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 “noll”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Niantic
Niantic
46,867 corpus weight
- nihilistic
nihilistic
46,866 corpus weight
- Niven
Niven
46,865 corpus weight
- noll
noll
46,864 corpus weight
- Nollywood
Nollywood
46,863 corpus weight
- Nostradamus
Nostradamus
46,861 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “noll” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noll |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /nɒl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “noll” in English
Rare enough to double-check
noll is uncommon English at frequency #53,137 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /nɒl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The head, especially the top of the head.".
noll doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English nol, from Old English hnol. Cognate with Dutch nol (“top of a sand-dune”). The correct English form is noll, spelled N-O-L-L.
Definition
- 1The head, especially the top of the head.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how noll appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wolde to God it wolde please you some daye / A balade boke before me for to laye, / And lerne me to synge Re my fa sol! / And whan I fayle bobbe me on the noll.
Etymology
From Middle English nol, from Old English hnol. Cognate with Dutch nol (“top of a sand-dune”).
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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