none
/nʌn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.93 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Not at all, not very.
adv
No, not.
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "None of those is a good example. None are even acceptable."
- "None of this meat tastes right."
- "There were many but now there are none."
- "None of those people is my father."
- "None of those people are my parents. None shall pass."
- "Alas, none of these people were writing the reviews."
Etymology
From Middle English none, noon, non (“not one”), from Old English nān (“not one, not any, none”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, nothing”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + one. (Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.) Cognate with Scots nane (“none”), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), West Frisian neen & gjin (“no, none”), Dutch neen & geen (“no, none”), Low German nēn, neen, keen (“no, none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin nōn (“not”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /nʌn/
- British English: /nʌn/