negre
\ˈneɣɾe\
The verdict
“negre” is uncommon French (frequency #68,499 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,499
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Noir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-negre · negre · French
negre · rank #68,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,499
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH navigabilité
Nearest frequency peer: navigabilité (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « negre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nabila
Nabila
31,507 corpus weight
- Nauru
Nauru
31,504 corpus weight
- navigabilité
navigabilité
31,503 corpus weight
- negre
negre
31,502 corpus weight
- Neuvy
Neuvy
31,500 corpus weight
- niera
niera
31,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « negre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | negre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈneɣɾe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « negre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
negre is uncommon French at frequency #68,499 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈneɣɾe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
negre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is negre, spelled N-E-G-R-E.
Definition
- 1Noir.
- 2Obscur, sombre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how negre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fissèt son caval d’un cop d’esperon, e trobèt un pagés abilhat de negre, que portava sos quatre pels abatuts, e una crespa penjada sus lo darrièr decatalanat de son capèl.
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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