nye
/naɪ/
"nye" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nye” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,151) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,151
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A brood or flock of pheasants.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nye · nye · English
nye · rank #19,151 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,151
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH oblivion
Nearest frequency peer: oblivion (+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 “nye”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- narration
narration
80,856 corpus weight
- Nassau
Nassau
80,854 corpus weight
- nip
nip
80,852 corpus weight
- nye
nye
80,850 corpus weight
- oblivion
oblivion
80,849 corpus weight
- ornament
ornament
80,845 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “nye” 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 | nye |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /naɪ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “nye”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nye is neighbouring look-alikes ("NZ", "NYT", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /naɪ/. Frequency #19,151 among 1,534 “N” headwords. Gloss: "A brood or flock of pheasants.".
Zero misspellings are on record for nye in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NZ", "NYT", "NYU", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Probably from French nid (“nest, brood”), from Latin nidus (“nest”). Doublet of nidus and nest. The correct English form is nye, spelled N-Y-E.
Definition
- 1A brood or flock of pheasants.
Etymology
Probably from French nid (“nest, brood”), from Latin nidus (“nest”). Doublet of nidus and nest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).