nonagenarian
/ˌnɑnəd͡ʒɪˈnɛriən/noun, adjective
nonagenarian is spelled N-O-N-A-G-E-N-A-R-I-A-N. The wrong spelling people search most is nanogenarian: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 36 of all searches for the word. Nonagenarian is a noun meaning “Synonym of ninetysomething: a person between 90 and 99 years old”. The plural of nonagenarian is nonagenarians.
How do you spell nonagenarian?
Nonagenarian is spelled N-O-N-A-G-E-N-A-R-I-A-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 37 of the searches for nonagenarian in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does nonagenarian mean?
noun
- 1
Synonym of ninetysomething: a person between 90 and 99 years old.
adjective
- 1
Of or related to ninetysomethings.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce nonagenarian?
- US /ˌnɑnəd͡ʒɪˈnɛriən/
- US /ˌnoʊnəd͡ʒɪˈnɛriən/
- UK /ˌnɒnəd͡ʒɪˈnɛːrɪən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-nonagenarian.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of nonagenarian
- nonagenarians plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nonagenarian?
Nonagenarian appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).
Where does nonagenarian come from?
From Latin nōnāgēnārius (“containing ninety”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives and representative nouns), either directly or via French nonagénaire, from nōnāgēnī (“ninety each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from nōnāginta (“nine tens, ninety”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).