Nollywood
/ˈnɒ.li.wʊd/
"nollywood" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Nollywood” is uncommon English (frequency #53,138 among 24,391 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,138
- frequency rank, English
- 24,391
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The Nigerian film industry.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nollywood |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈnɒ.li.wʊd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nollywood” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Nollywood is uncommon English at frequency #53,138 among 24,391 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈnɒ.li.wʊd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The Nigerian film industry.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Nollywood, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of Nigeria + Hollywood. The correct English form is Nollywood, spelled N-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1The Nigerian film industry.
Etymology
Blend of Nigeria + Hollywood.
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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Using “Nollywood”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is N-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.