niakoué
\nja.kwe\
The verdict
“niakoué” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terme raciste pour désigner les Vietnamiens ; Indochinois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niakoue · niakoué · French
niakoué · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | niakoué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nja.kwe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
niakoué is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \nja.kwe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for niakoué, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. The correct French form is niakoué, spelled N-I-A-K-O-U-É.
Definition
- 1Terme raciste pour désigner les Vietnamiens ; Indochinois.
- 2Tout Asiatique, en particulier originaire de l’Asie de l’Est ou du Sud-Est.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how niakoué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un jour, un grand potentat local, un niakoué qui aimait bien les Français, l'avait invité à une fête suivie d'un festin où il avait assisté à des merveilles : […].
Je prêchais pour ma paroisse, puisque moi, le niakoué, j'avais épousé Lou, une Bretonne pure souche, très blanche de peau, et que nous avions eu ensemble une gamine au teint d'albâtre, au nez grec, mais aux cheveux charbonneux et aux yeux bridés.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.