nerds
\nəʁd\
The verdict
“nerds” is uncommon French (frequency #53,513 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,513
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de nerd.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nerds · nerds · French
nerds · rank #53,513 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,513
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nguesso
Nearest frequency peer: Nguesso (+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 « nerds »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nasse
nasse
46,491 corpus weight
- naughty
naughty
46,490 corpus weight
- nerds
nerds
46,488 corpus weight
- Nguesso
Nguesso
46,487 corpus weight
- niez
niez
46,486 corpus weight
- noun
noun
46,485 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nerds » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nerds |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nəʁd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nerds » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nerds is uncommon French at frequency #53,513 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nəʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de nerd.".
nerds has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is nerds, spelled N-E-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de nerd.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nerds appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Ces personnes qu’on voyait comme des nerds sont devenues parents et transmettent ce goût de la fantasy à leurs enfants », poursuit Mestre Thibaut, vidéaste spécialiste du genre.
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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