nice
\nis\
The verdict
“nice” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,962. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,962
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est simple, candide, innocent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nice · nice · French
nice · rank #1,962 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,962
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH meilleures
Nearest frequency peer: meilleures (-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 « nice »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- logement
logement
98,042 corpus weight
- maximum
maximum
98,041 corpus weight
- meilleures
meilleures
98,040 corpus weight
- nice
nice
98,039 corpus weight
- piste
piste
98,038 corpus weight
- plage
plage
98,037 corpus weight
What this shows « nice » 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 | nice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nis\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nice »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around nice (IPA \nis\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,962 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for nice, with forms such as "ince", "ncie", and "nicce". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nue", "nid", "nie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is nice, spelled N-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est simple, candide, innocent.
- 2Simple, dépourvu de stipulation annexe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les plus jeunes damoiselles, encore nices et peu garnies d'entregent, étaient doucement chapitrées par les jouvenceaux avisés qui leur prêchaient maintes jolies doctrines.
Entendez donc que j’ai cru, plus nice qu’une pensionnaire, au pouvoir exclusif de cet inconnu que je fuyais !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ince
- ncie
- nicce
- niec
- nnice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nice - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nice", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).