# nox

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #34,207

## Definitions
1. The 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.

## Easily confused with
- **NZ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nz)
- **NT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nt)
- **NP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-np)
- **nu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nu)
- **nr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nr)
- **NYC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nyc)
- **nut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nut)
- **NSA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nsa)
- **NSW** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nsw)
- **nun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nun)
- **NPR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-npr)
- **NRA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nra)
- **nye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nye)
- **NYT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nyt)
- **NYU** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nyu)
- **NPC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-npc)
- **NRC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nrc)
- **NSF** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nsf)
- **NSC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nsc)
- **nth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/nox-vs-nth)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/nox