nems
\nɛm\
The verdict
“nems” is uncommon French (frequency #54,753 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,753
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de nem.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nems · nems · French
nems · rank #54,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,753
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH neurochirurgie
Nearest frequency peer: neurochirurgie (+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 « nems »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nationalisé
nationalisé
45,253 corpus weight
- nee
nee
45,252 corpus weight
- nems
nems
45,248 corpus weight
- neurochirur…
neurochirurgie
45,247 corpus weight
- neuronale
neuronale
45,246 corpus weight
- niait
niait
45,244 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nems » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nems |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɛm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nems » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nems is uncommon French at frequency #54,753 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de nem.".
nems doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is nems, spelled N-E-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de nem.
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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