neighborhood: meaning and words from its letters
12 letters · 22 letter points · starts with N · ends with D
Meaning of neighborhood
noun
- US, countable, uncountable
The residential area near one's home.
Example: He lives in my neighborhood.
- US, collective, countable, uncountable
The inhabitants of a residential area.
Example: The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
- US, countable, uncountable
A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
Example: We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.
- US, countable, uncountable
An approximate amount.
Example: He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
Listed forms: neighborhoods, neighbourhood.
Source: Wiktionary — neighborhood.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for neighborhood.
noun
a surrounding or nearby region
- vicinity
- locality
- neighbourhood
- neck of the woods
noun
people living near one another
noun
the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’)
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is neighborhood in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Not found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of neighborhood
N(1) + E(1) + I(1) + G(2) + H(4) + B(3) + O(1) + R(1) + H(4) + O(1) + O(1) + D(2) = 22 points.
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Anagrams of neighborhood
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from neighborhood
317 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in neighborhood. Showing up to 24, longest first.