neem

/\nim\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

neem is aFrenchnoun. It means: Un des noms vernaculaires dAzadirachta indica arbre des régions tropicales et subtropicales de la famille des Méliacées (comme le mahogany). Originaire d’Inde orientale il est de plus en plus culti... Pronounced \nim\.

Key facts for neem
PropertyValue
Headwordneem
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nim\
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

neem is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for neem is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nim\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Un des noms vernaculaires dAzadirachta indica arbre des régions tropicales et subtropicales de la famille des Méliacées (comme le mahogany). Originaire d’Inde orientale il est de plus en plus culti...".

No misspelling variants are generated for neem in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is neem, spelled N-E-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Un des noms vernaculaires dAzadirachta indica arbre des régions tropicales et subtropicales de la famille des Méliacées (comme le mahogany). Originaire d’Inde orientale il est de plus en plus cultivé en Afrique, en Australie et en Amérique Latine.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "neem"?
"neem" is spelled N-E-E-M. The IPA pronunciation is \nim\.
What does "neem" mean?
As a noun, "neem" means: Un des noms vernaculaires dAzadirachta indica arbre des régions tropicales et subtropicales de la famille des Méliacées (comme le mahogany). Originaire d’Inde orientale il est de plus en plus culti...
How do you pronounce "neem"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "neem" is \nim\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "neem" come from?
"neem" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.