neiger
\nɛ.ʒe\
The verdict
“neiger” is uncommon French (frequency #52,223 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,223
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tomber des nuages, en parlant de la neige.
Corpus desk
Index FR-neiger · neiger · French
neiger · rank #52,223 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,223
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nettoyées
Nearest frequency peer: nettoyées (+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 « neiger »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- naturisme
naturisme
47,781 corpus weight
- nectaire
nectaire
47,780 corpus weight
- neiger
neiger
47,778 corpus weight
- nettoyées
nettoyées
47,777 corpus weight
- Neufchâteau
Neufchâteau
47,776 corpus weight
- Nicolaï
Nicolaï
47,775 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « neiger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neiger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nɛ.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « neiger » en français
Rare enough to double-check
neiger is uncommon French at frequency #52,223 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \nɛ.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for neiger, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is neiger, spelled N-E-I-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tomber des nuages, en parlant de la neige.
- 2Produire une couche blanche de fleurs tombées rappelant la neige.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how neiger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait fortement neigé dès le début de décembre, et il y avait eu de magnifiques batailles à coups de boules de neige, […].
Il recommence à neiger, une neige comme je les aime, frêle, diaphane, neige d'enfance, toute pareille à celle qui dansait devant la fenêtre de l’isba de grand-mère.
This word in other languages
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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