nichent
\niʃ\
The verdict
“nichent” is uncommon French (frequency #54,758 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,758
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de nicher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nichent · nichent · French
nichent · rank #54,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,758
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH niait
Nearest frequency peer: niait (-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 « nichent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- neuronale
neuronale
45,246 corpus weight
- niait
niait
45,244 corpus weight
- nichent
nichent
45,243 corpus weight
- Nicéphore
Nicéphore
45,242 corpus weight
- nivôse
nivôse
45,241 corpus weight
- niée
niée
45,240 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nichent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nichent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \niʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nichent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nichent is uncommon French at frequency #54,758 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \niʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for nichent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nichent, spelled N-I-C-H-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de nicher.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de nicher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nichent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand il disait ses poèmes étranges et doux, les bêtes approchaient pour mieux l’entendre, les lézards et les chiens, et les pigeons posant sur son épaule un vol rejoint, songeant peut-être à le défendre ; les hirondelles, ces oiseaux qui, pour mieux relier l’homme et le ciel, nichent sous les génoises des toitures, les chèvres qui débroutent les haies, b…
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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