not worth a plug nickel
"not-worth-a-plug-nickel" is a 19-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“not worth a plug nickel” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having no or almost no value; worthless.
Corpus desk
Index EN-not-worth-a-plug-nickel · not worth a plug nickel · English
not worth a plug nickel · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 23 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | not worth a plug nickel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “not worth a plug nickel” in English
Rare enough to double-check
not worth a plug nickel is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having no or almost no value; worthless.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for not worth a plug nickel, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is not worth a plug nickel, spelled N-O-T- -W-O-R-T-H- -A- -P-L-U-G- -N-I-C-K-E-L.
Definition
- 1Having no or almost no value; worthless.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how not worth a plug nickel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr., and David Rayfiel, Turner very early on stumbles upon the existence of a kind of super-C.I.A. within the C.I.A., after which his life is not worth a plug nickel.
Synonyms
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.