neige
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,290
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
neige is aFrenchnoun. It means: Forme de pluie cristalline se produisant lorsque la température descend en dessous de 0 °C, les gouttes d’eau s’étant transformées en flocons blancs et légers. Pronounced \nɛʒ\. It ranks #2,290 in French word frequency. Often confused with nie and nice.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neige |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for neige is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɛʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,290 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for neige, with forms such as "enige", "negie", and "neieg". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nie", "nice", "Nike", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 neige, spelled N-E-I-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forme de pluie cristalline se produisant lorsque la température descend en dessous de 0 °C, les gouttes d’eau s’étant transformées en flocons blancs et légers.
- 2Climat neigeux.
- 3Ce qui présente l’apparence de la neige.
- 4Cocaïne.
- 5Bruit blanc sur un écran de télévision analogique.
- 6Breynia nivosa ^([1]).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enige,negie,neieg,neigge,niege,nneige
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "neige"
Frequency rank: #2,290 in French
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Nearby French words
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