news

\njuz\

/\njuz\/ noun

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The verdict

“news” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,887. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,887
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Magazine principalement consacré à l’actualité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-news · news · French

news · rank #2,887 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,887
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH Moscou

Nearest frequency peer: Moscou (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « news »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « news » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

news vs NS
0% similar
news vs nos
50% similar
news vs nez
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for news
PropertyValue
Headwordnews
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\njuz\
Letters4
Frequency rank#2,887
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « news »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).newsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Moscou » (#2,886), « obligatoire » (#2,888), « mine » (#2,885). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « news » est au #2,887. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around news (IPA \njuz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,887 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Magazine principalement consacré à l’actualité.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for news, with forms such as "enws", "nesw", and "newss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NS", "nos", "nez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is news, spelled N-E-W-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Magazine principalement consacré à l’actualité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how news appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La serveuse repart en traînant la savate et allume une vieille TV accrochée dans un coin de l'ancien bus. Une chaîne actu déverse en silence ses news feuilletonnesques.
  2. Il veut désormais faire de Valeurs actuelles, hebdomadaire officiel d'une droite décomplexée, «un news soporifIque, mal écrit, qui donne de la place aux idées archaïques» et qui s'affirme comme un «vrai magazine néo-fasciste et discriminant».

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • enws
  • nesw
  • newss
  • newws
  • nnews
  • nwes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of news - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

enws2nesw2newss1newws1nnews1nwes2
Edit distance from "news"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "news"?
"news" is spelled N-E-W-S. The IPA pronunciation is \njuz\.
What does "news" mean?
As a noun, "news" means: Magazine principalement consacré à l’actualité.
What words are commonly confused with "news"?
"news" is commonly confused with "NS", "nos", "nez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "news"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "news" is \njuz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "news" come from?
"news" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "news", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mine#2,885Eric#2,876dite#2,873abus#2,860

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

fuite6 variantsessais6 variantsvague6 variantsshow6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list