nylons
"nylons" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nylons” is uncommon English (frequency #56,328 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,328
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - stockings made from nylon
Corpus desk
Index EN-nylons · nylons · English
nylons · rank #56,328 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,328
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Nyquist
Nearest frequency peer: Nyquist (+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 “nylons”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Nowell
Nowell
43,677 corpus weight
- Nubia
Nubia
43,676 corpus weight
- nylons
nylons
43,673 corpus weight
- Nyquist
Nyquist
43,672 corpus weight
- ocarina
ocarina
43,670 corpus weight
- odometer
odometer
43,668 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “nylons” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nylons |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nylons” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
nylons is uncommon English at frequency #56,328 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "stockings made from nylon".
Zero misspellings are on record for nylons in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is nylons, spelled N-Y-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1stockings made from nylon
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nylons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.