nox
/ɛn əʊ ˈɛks/noun
nox is spelled N-O-X: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nox means “The period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; a night” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nox is noctes; Wiktionary also lists noxes (proscribed), noces (proscribed).
How many letters and syllables are in nox?
| Letters | 3: N-O-X |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 34,063rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is nox?
Nox appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce nox?
- /ɛn əʊ ˈɛks/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-nox.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of nox
- noctes plural
- noxes plural
- noces plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nox mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; a night.
- 2
raremillilux (unit of illuminance)
- 3
Alternative form of NOx (nitrogen oxides)
- 4
Abbreviation of nitrous oxide (“N₂O”).
Near-synonym: nos
noun
- 1
Any of the various nitrogen oxides produced during combustion.
- 2
Alternative form of nox (“nitrous oxide”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does nox come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nok⁽ʷ⁾ts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).