nadir
\na.diʁ\
The verdict
“nadir” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,595. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,595
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Point situé sous l’observateur en suivant la verticale tirée du point où il se tient et passant par le centre de la Terre, ou dirigée dans le sens de la gravitation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nadir · nadir · French
nadir · rank #44,595 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,595
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH méridienne
Nearest frequency peer: méridienne (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « nadir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mutins
mutins
55,409 corpus weight
- mécréant
mécréant
55,408 corpus weight
- méridienne
méridienne
55,407 corpus weight
- nadir
nadir
55,406 corpus weight
- nanoparticu…
nanoparticules
55,405 corpus weight
- naviguent
naviguent
55,404 corpus weight
What this shows « nadir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nadir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.diʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nadir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around nadir (IPA \na.diʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,595 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for nadir, with forms such as "andir", "naddir", and "nadirr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "nai", "noir", "nazi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nadir, spelled N-A-D-I-R.
Definition
- 1Point situé sous l’observateur en suivant la verticale tirée du point où il se tient et passant par le centre de la Terre, ou dirigée dans le sens de la gravitation.
- 2Valeur la plus basse dans une série.
- 3Pire moment ; moment où il y a le moins d’espoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nadir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En deux points du globe, ayant respectivement la lune au zénith et au nadir, la surface des océans a tendance à monter créant une pleine-mer.
La livre sterling, déjà fortement dévaluée depuis le référendum sur le Brexit du 23 juin 2016, a réagi, en approchant de son nadir.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- andir
- naddir
- nadirr
- nadri
- naidr
- ndair
- nnadir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nadir - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).