Niçois
\ni.swa\
The verdict
“Niçois” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,922. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,922
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de Nice, ville située sur la Côte d’Azur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nicois · Niçois · French
Niçois · rank #19,922 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,922
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nigel
Nearest frequency peer: Nigel (-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 « Niçois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Neptune
Neptune
80,081 corpus weight
- Nigel
Nigel
80,080 corpus weight
- Niçois
Niçois
80,079 corpus weight
- obtenant
obtenant
80,078 corpus weight
- obtiens
obtiens
80,077 corpus weight
- ossements
ossements
80,076 corpus weight
What this shows « Niçois » 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 | Niçois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.swa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,922 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Niçois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Niçois (IPA \ni.swa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,922 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Habitant de Nice, ville située sur la Côte d’Azur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Niçois, with forms such as "inçois", "nicois", and "nioçis". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Nikos", "Nicole", "nicola", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Niçois, spelled N-I-Ç-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Habitant de Nice, ville située sur la Côte d’Azur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Niçois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous les Français que j'ai interrogés sont, de leur côté, d'accord sur un autre point : celui des devoirs que nous avons contractés vis-à-vis des Algériens, parce qu'ils ont versé leur sang pour nous dans trois guerres, parce qu'ils partagent notre destin depuis 130 ans (depuis plus longtemps que les Niçois et les Savoyards).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inçois
- nicois
- nioçis
- niçios
- niçoiss
- niçosi
- nniçois
- nçiois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Niçois - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).