nox
"nox" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nox” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,207) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,207
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; a night.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nox · nox · English
nox · rank #34,207 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,207
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Nieto
Nearest frequency peer: Nieto (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “nox”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- necked
necked
65,797 corpus weight
- Nieto
Nieto
65,795 corpus weight
- nox
nox
65,794 corpus weight
- nymph
nymph
65,793 corpus weight
- oceanography
oceanography
65,792 corpus weight
- Oedipus
Oedipus
65,791 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “nox” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | nox |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “nox”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nox is neighbouring look-alikes ("NZ", "NT", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #34,207 among 1,534 “N” headwords. Gloss: "The period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; a night.".
nox doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NZ", "NT", "NP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts Proto-Italic *nokts Latin noxlbor. English nox Learned borrowing from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. The correct English form is nox, spelled N-O-X.
Definition
- 1The period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; a night.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts Proto-Italic *nokts Latin noxlbor. English nox Learned borrowing from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.
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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