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niveau

noun

niveau is spelled N-I-V-E-A-U: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, niveau means “level, grade, standard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of niveau is niveaus.

How many letters and syllables are in niveau?

Letters6: N-I-V-E-A-U
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 139,999th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is niveau?

Niveau appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of niveau

  • niveaus plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does niveau mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    rarelevel, grade, standard

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does niveau come from?

From French niveau; see there for more. Doublet of level and libella.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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