nosey parker

noun

"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

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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.

Key facts for nosey parker
PropertyValue
Headwordnosey parker
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “nosey parker” in English

nosey parkerranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    An overly inquisitive or prying person.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how nosey parker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nosey parker"?
"nosey parker" is spelled N-O-S-E-Y- -P-A-R-K-E-R.
What does "nosey parker" mean?
As a noun, "nosey parker" means: An overly inquisitive or prying person.
What is the origin of the word "nosey parker"?
Unknown, 1890. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list