nonetheless
/ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/adverb
nonetheless is spelled N-O-N-E-T-H-E-L-E-S-S. The wrong spelling people search most is nontheless: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Nonetheless is an adverb meaning “Nevertheless”.
How many letters and syllables are in nonetheless?
| Letters | 11: N-O-N-E-T-H-E-L-E-S-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,674th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, nontheless, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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).
How do you spell nonetheless?
Nonetheless is spelled N-O-N-E-T-H-E-L-E-S-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for nonetheless 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.
How common is nonetheless?
Nonetheless appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th 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).
How do you pronounce nonetheless?
- /ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/
Nonetheless has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-nonetheless.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with nonetheless
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What does nonetheless mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Nevertheless.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Nonetheless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense nevertheless:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | néanmoins |
| German | nichtsdestoweniger, nichtsdestotrotz |
| Portuguese | ainda assim |
| Spanish | no obstante, sin embargo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does nonetheless come from?
A modification of natheless after none, from Middle English natheles, from Old English nān þȳ lǣs, nā þē lǣs, nā þȳ lǣs. By surface analysis, none + the + less.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).