nine vs niner

nine

noun
  • The digit or figure 9. 

  • A playing card with nine pips. 

  • A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players). 

  • A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol. 

  • A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.). 

num
  • Describing a group or set with nine elements. 

  • A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten. 

niner

noun
  • Something nine inches long. 

num
  • Used instead of nine in radio communications to avoid confusion with five and nein. 

How often have the words nine and niner occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )