niaises
\njɛz\
The verdict
“niaises” is uncommon French (frequency #78,681 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,681
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de niais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niaises · niaises · French
niaises · rank #78,681 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,681
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH newtonienne
Nearest frequency peer: newtonienne (-2 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 « niaises »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nettoyait
nettoyait
21,325 corpus weight
- neutralisées
neutralisées
21,324 corpus weight
- newtonienne
newtonienne
21,322 corpus weight
- niaises
niaises
21,320 corpus weight
- nodule
nodule
21,318 corpus weight
- noiret
noiret
21,316 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « niaises » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | niaises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \njɛz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « niaises » en français
Rare enough to double-check
niaises is uncommon French at frequency #78,681 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \njɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de niais.".
No misspelling variants are generated for niaises in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is niaises, spelled N-I-A-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de niais.
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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