naines
\nɛn\
The verdict
“naines” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,421. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,421
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de nain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-naines · naines · French
naines · rank #41,421 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,421
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH méfient
Nearest frequency peer: méfient (-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 « naines »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- médiatrice
médiatrice
58,583 corpus weight
- méfait
méfait
58,582 corpus weight
- méfient
méfient
58,581 corpus weight
- naines
naines
58,580 corpus weight
- needs
needs
58,578 corpus weight
- nocive
nocive
58,577 corpus weight
What this shows « naines » 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 | naines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « naines »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around naines (IPA \nɛn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #41,421 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de nain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for naines, with forms such as "anines", "naiens", and "nainess". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nine", "Nîmes", "nanas", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is naines, spelled N-A-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de nain.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anines
- naiens
- nainess
- nainnes
- nainse
- nanies
- nianes
- nnaines
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of naines - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "naines", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).