niaiserie
\njɛz.ʁi\
The verdict
“niaiserie” is uncommon French (frequency #50,994 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,994
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère d’une personne, d’une conduite ou d’une parole niaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niaiserie · niaiserie · French
niaiserie · rank #50,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,994
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nautisme
Nearest frequency peer: nautisme (-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 « niaiserie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- métamorphos…
métamorphoser
49,010 corpus weight
- nais
nais
49,009 corpus weight
- nautisme
nautisme
49,008 corpus weight
- niaiserie
niaiserie
49,007 corpus weight
- nimbus
nimbus
49,006 corpus weight
- nostrum
nostrum
49,005 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « niaiserie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | niaiserie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \njɛz.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « niaiserie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
niaiserie is uncommon French at frequency #50,994 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \njɛz.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
niaiserie has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is niaiserie, spelled N-I-A-I-S-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Caractère d’une personne, d’une conduite ou d’une parole niaise.
- 2Futilité, fadaise, baliverne, conte. Note d’usage : Ce terme est généralement utilisé au pluriel.
- 3Petites choses, objets dénués de valeur, des breloques, des riens ; colifichets, pacotille, bijoux bon marché.
- 4Connerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how niaiserie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils sont encore une foule de subtiles niaiseries bien plus spirituelles que toutes celles-là. Ce sont des notions, des relations, des formalités, des quiddités, des eccéités, toutes choses qui ne peuvent être aperçues que par ceux qui ont d'assez bons yeux pour voir au milieu des plus épaisses ténèbres, ce qui n’existe nulle part.
Il y a des gens niais qui se connaissent, et qui emploient habilement leur niaiserie.
This word in other languages
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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