nez
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,827
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
nez is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie saillante du visage entre la bouche et le front couvrant l’organe communiquant avec les poumons permettant de sentir et de respirer. Pronounced \ne\. It ranks #1,827 in French word frequency. Often confused with ni and no.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ne\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nez is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,827 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for nez in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ni", "no", "nu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is nez, spelled N-E-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie saillante du visage entre la bouche et le front couvrant l’organe communiquant avec les poumons permettant de sentir et de respirer.
- 2Siège de l’odorat chez les animaux dépourvus de cet appendice.
- 3Odorat.
- 4Tout le visage.
- 5Toute la personne.
- 6Partie saillante de certains objets.
- 7Partie saillante de certains objets.
- 8Partie saillante de certains objets.
- 9Partie saillante de certains objets.
- 10Éperon, avant, proue d’un vaisseau, d’un avion, d’une fusée.
- 11Créateur, ou créatrice, de parfums.
- 12Étape dans l’analyse sensorielle et la dégustation du vin.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #1,827 in French
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