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nonblack

adjective, noun

nonblack is spelled N-O-N-B-L-A-C-K: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, nonblack means “Not black in color” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in nonblack?

Letters8: N-O-N-B-L-A-C-K
In writingabout once in every 35 million words; the 180,281st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is nonblack?

Nonblack appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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).

Forms of nonblack

  • non-black
  • nonblacks plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does nonblack mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Not black in color.

  2. 2

    Not of African descent; not racially black.

noun

  1. 1

    A nonblack person.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate nonblack?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of nonblack: NB.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does nonblack come from?

From non- + black.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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