nympho
/ˈnɪmfoʊ/
"nympho" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nympho” is uncommon English (frequency #73,488 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,488
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A nymphomaniac.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nympho · nympho · English
nympho · rank #73,488 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,488
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH nug
Nearest frequency peer: nug (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “nympho”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nudie
nudie
26,515 corpus weight
- nug
nug
26,514 corpus weight
- nympho
nympho
26,513 corpus weight
- obstruction…
obstructionist
26,511 corpus weight
- Odie
Odie
26,510 corpus weight
- oligonucleo…
oligonucleotide
26,507 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “nympho” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nympho |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈnɪmfoʊ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nympho” in English
Rare enough to double-check
nympho is uncommon English at frequency #73,488 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈnɪmfoʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A nymphomaniac.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nympho, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of nymphomaniac. The correct English form is nympho, spelled N-Y-M-P-H-O.
Definition
- 1A nymphomaniac.
Etymology
Clipping of nymphomaniac.
This word in other languages
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).