NVMe
"nvme" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“NVMe” is uncommon English (frequency #80,715 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,715
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of non-volatile memory express; a protocol for efficiently accessing (typically solid-state) NVRAM over a PCIe bus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nvme · NVMe · English
NVMe · rank #80,715 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,715
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH nuzzling
Nearest frequency peer: nuzzling (-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 neighbourhood for “NVMe”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- nonparametr…
nonparametric
19,290 corpus weight
- NPN
NPN
19,289 corpus weight
- NRDC
NRDC
19,288 corpus weight
- nuzzling
nuzzling
19,287 corpus weight
- NVMe
NVMe
19,286 corpus weight
- obsequious
obsequious
19,282 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “NVMe” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | NVMe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “NVMe” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
NVMe is uncommon English at frequency #80,715 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of non-volatile memory express; a protocol for efficiently accessing (typically solid-state) NVRAM over a PCIe bus.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for NVMe, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Coined by an industry working group in 2009 on the pattern of PCIe (“PCI Express”). The correct English form is NVMe, spelled N-V-M-E.
Definition
- 1Initialism of non-volatile memory express; a protocol for efficiently accessing (typically solid-state) NVRAM over a PCIe bus.
Etymology
Coined by an industry working group in 2009 on the pattern of PCIe (“PCI Express”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.