není
The verdict
“není” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent du verbe nebýt. Il signifie « il n'est pas » mais a aussi la valeur de « il n’y a pas ».
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | není |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “není” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for není is 4 letters long, classified as a verb. 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: "Troisième personne du singulier du présent du verbe nebýt. Il signifie « il n'est pas » mais a aussi la valeur de « il n’y a pas ».".
není doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is není, spelled N-E-N-Í.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent du verbe nebýt. Il signifie « il n'est pas » mais a aussi la valeur de « il n’y a pas ».
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “není”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-E-N-Í - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.