nicodème
\ni.kɔ.dɛm\
The verdict
“nicodème” is uncommon French (frequency #69,266 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,266
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme niais, nigaud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nicodeme · nicodème · French
nicodème · rank #69,266 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,266
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nevermind
Nearest frequency peer: nevermind (-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 « nicodème »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nausicaa
Nausicaa
30,738 corpus weight
- nebula
nebula
30,737 corpus weight
- nevermind
nevermind
30,736 corpus weight
- nicodème
nicodème
30,735 corpus weight
- nim
nim
30,733 corpus weight
- Niortais
Niortais
30,732 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nicodème » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nicodème |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.kɔ.dɛm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nicodème » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nicodème is uncommon French at frequency #69,266 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ni.kɔ.dɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Homme niais, nigaud.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nicodème in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nicodème, spelled N-I-C-O-D-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Homme niais, nigaud.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nicodème appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un coquebin, un rossard, un lendore, un barguigneur, un niguedouille, un coquefredouille, un marmiteux, un clampin, un boniface, un pisse-froid, un nicodème, un soliveau, un frelampier, un claude.
D’autres prenaient dans leurs filets les messieurs trop bien mis qui se pavanaient sous le balcon des dames ; des cacheux ou chasseurs, armés d’un fusil déculassé, soufflaient du son à la face des nicodèmes.
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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