nerve
\nɛʁv\
The verdict
“nerve” is uncommon French (frequency #75,941 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,941
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de nerver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nerve · nerve · French
nerve · rank #75,941 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,941
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Ndoye
Nearest frequency peer: Ndoye (-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 « nerve »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nazaréen
nazaréen
24,063 corpus weight
- Ndoye
Ndoye
24,061 corpus weight
- nerve
nerve
24,060 corpus weight
- Nessa
Nessa
24,059 corpus weight
- nesta
nesta
24,058 corpus weight
- Neustadt
Neustadt
24,057 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nerve » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nerve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nɛʁv\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nerve » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nerve is uncommon French at frequency #75,941 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \nɛʁv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nerve, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nerve, spelled N-E-R-V-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de nerver.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de nerver.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de nerver.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de nerver.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de nerver.
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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