niais
\njɛ\
The verdict
“niais” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,630. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,630
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie un oiseau de fauconnerie pris dans le nid.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niais · niais · French
niais · rank #22,630 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,630
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nelly
Nearest frequency peer: Nelly (-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 « niais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mécénat
mécénat
77,374 corpus weight
- Nd
Nd
77,373 corpus weight
- Nelly
Nelly
77,372 corpus weight
- niais
niais
77,371 corpus weight
- noirceur
noirceur
77,370 corpus weight
- nope
nope
77,369 corpus weight
What this shows « niais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | niais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \njɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « niais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around niais (IPA \njɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,630 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for niais, with forms such as "inais", "naiis", and "niaiss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nis", "nids", "Nils", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 niais, spelled N-I-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Qualifie un oiseau de fauconnerie pris dans le nid.
- 2Sot ; inexpérimenté ; idiot → voir béjaune et blanc-bec.
- 3Qui est composé de niaiseries.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how niais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vol en plein champ était surtout confié au faucon niais des montagnes, au lannier et au lanneret.
Les faucons, suivant leur âge, sont niais, branchiers, sors ou hagards. On désigne sous le premier de ces noms des oiseaux pris dans l’aire. Le duvet de la première enfance recouvre encore leur tête, mais leurs membres sont déjà emplumés.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inais
- naiis
- niaiss
- niasi
- niias
- nniais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of niais - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).