nosey parker
"nosey-parker" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nosey parker” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An overly inquisitive or prying person.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nosey-parker · nosey parker · English
nosey parker · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nosey parker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nosey parker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
nosey parker is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An overly inquisitive or prying person.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nosey parker in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unknown, 1890. The correct English form is nosey parker, spelled N-O-S-E-Y- -P-A-R-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1An overly inquisitive or prying person.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nosey parker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yer a lotta nosey parkers.
Etymology
Unknown, 1890.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.