nonpartisan
"nonpartisan" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nonpartisan” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #32,514 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #32,514
- frequency rank, English
- 11
- letters
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Not partisan; impartial and unbiased.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nonpartisan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #32,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nonpartisan” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for nonpartisan is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #32,514 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Not partisan; impartial and unbiased.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for nonpartisan, with forms such as "nnonpartisan", "nnopartisan", and "nonaprtisan". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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: From non- + partisan. The correct English form is nonpartisan, spelled N-O-N-P-A-R-T-I-S-A-N.
Definition
- 1Not partisan; impartial and unbiased.
Etymology
From non- + partisan.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nnonpartisan,nnopartisan,nonaprtisan,nonnpartisan,nonparitsan,nonparrtisan,nonpartiasn,nonpartisann,nonpartisna,nonpartissan,nonpartsian,nonparttisan,nonpatrisan,nonppartisan,nonpratisan,nopnartisan,onnpartisan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nonpartisan - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “nonpartisan”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is N-O-N-P-A-R-T-I-S-A-N - 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.