# none

> English word · Pronoun · IPA /nʌn/ · frequency rank #1,251

## Definitions
1. Not any of a given number or group.
2. Not any of a given number or group.
3. Not any of a given number or group.

## Etymology
From Middle English none, noon, non (“not one”), from Old English nān (“not one, not any, none”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, nothing”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + one. (Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.)
Cognate with Scots nane (“none”), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), West Frisian neen & gjin (“no, none”), Dutch neen & geen (“no, none”), Low German nēn, neen, keen (“no, none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin nōn (“not”).

## Easily confused with
- **not** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-not)
- **now** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-now)
- **nor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-nor)
- **nov** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-nov)
- **nun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-nun)
- **nos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-nos)
- **nye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-nye)
- **nox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-nox)
- **noo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-noo)
- **note** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-note)
- **nose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-nose)
- **nope** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-nope)
- **noon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-noon)
- **nude** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-nude)
- **norm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-norm)
- **nova** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-nova)
- **noun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-noun)
- **Nora** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-nora)
- **nuns** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-nuns)
- **nuke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/none-vs-nuke)

## Common misspellings (5)
`nnoe`, `nnone`, `noen`, `nonne`, `onne`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/none