noun
/naʊn/
"noun" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“noun” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,816. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,816
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in ma...
Corpus desk
Index EN-noun · noun · English
noun · rank #12,816 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,816
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH nobody's
Nearest frequency peer: nobody's (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “noun”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Mueller
Mueller
87,188 corpus weight
- nobody's
nobody's
87,186 corpus weight
- noun
noun
87,185 corpus weight
- novelist
novelist
87,184 corpus weight
- NSFW
NSFW
87,183 corpus weight
- oaks
oaks
87,182 corpus weight
What this shows “noun” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /naʊn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “noun”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around noun (IPA /naʊn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,816 among 1,534 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for noun, with forms such as "nnoun", "nonu", and "nounn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nu", "now", "nov", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen. The correct English form is noun, spelled N-O-U-N.
Definition
- 1A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
- 2Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
- 3An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how noun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.
Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”
Etymology
From Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnoun
- nonu
- nounn
- nuon
- onun
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of noun - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).