4 Letter Words Starting with N

Common four-letter words that start with N

The 50 most used in spoken English (SUBTLEX-US), with a short meaning.

• need 5/6 a condition requiring relief
• nice 6/8 pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
• name 6/8 assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
• next 11/12 immediately following in time or order
• news 7/8 information about recent and important events
• none 4/6 not at all or in no way
• near 4/5 near in time or place or relationship
• nose 4/5 the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract
• nine 4/6 the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
• nick 10/12 an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
• neck 10/12 the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body
• note 4/5 a brief written record
• nuts 4/6 informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
• nope 6/8
• navy 10/11 an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare
• noel 4/6 period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
• nail 4/6 attach something somewhere by means of nails
• noon 4/6 the middle of the day
• neat 4/5 clean or organized
• nest 4/5 a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
• nazi 13/14 relating to or consistent with or typical of the ideology and practice of Nazism or the Nazis
• nova 7/9 a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and becomes more luminous in the process
• numb 8/12 lacking sensation
• nuns 4/7 (form of nun) a woman religious
• nana 4/6
• norm 6/8 a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical
• nerd 5/6 an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
• neon 4/6 a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube
• nosy 7/7 offensively curious or inquisitive
• ness 4/5 a strip of land projecting into a body of water
• nada 5/6 a quantity of no importance
• nuke 8/10 the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb
• nets 4/5 (form of net) a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to…
• narc 6/8 a lawman concerned with narcotics violations
• newt 7/8 small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia
• nook 8/9 a sheltered and secluded place
• naps 6/8 (form of nap) a period of time spent sleeping
• nene 4/6
• nite 4/5
• nigh 8/9 not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
• noir 4/5
• nome 6/8 a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula
• nips 6/8 (form of nip) squeeze tightly between the fingers
• nibs 6/8 (form of nib) the writing point of a pen
• nous 4/6 common sense
• noun 4/7 a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
• null 4/8 lacking any legal or binding force
• node 5/6 a connecting point at which several lines come together
• nave 7/9 the central area of a church
• nags 5/7 (form of nag) bother persistently with trivial complaints

All 103 four-letter words that start with N

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