nicol
\ni.kɔl\
The verdict
“nicol” is uncommon French (frequency #60,235 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,235
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prisme provenant d’un cristal de spath fendu suivant un plan diagonal, et recollé à l'aide d'une couche de baume de Canada (térébenthine issue de la résine du sapin baumier).
Corpus desk
Index FR-nicol · nicol · French
nicol · rank #60,235 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,235
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nibards
Nearest frequency peer: nibards (-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 « nicol »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- NATO
NATO
39,771 corpus weight
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neuronal
39,769 corpus weight
- NHS
NHS
39,768 corpus weight
- nibards
nibards
39,767 corpus weight
- nicol
nicol
39,766 corpus weight
- obturation
obturation
39,761 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nicol » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nicol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.kɔl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nicol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nicol is uncommon French at frequency #60,235 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ni.kɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prisme provenant d’un cristal de spath fendu suivant un plan diagonal, et recollé à l'aide d'une couche de baume de Canada (térébenthine issue de la résine du sapin baumier).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nicol, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nicol, spelled N-I-C-O-L.
Definition
- 1Prisme provenant d’un cristal de spath fendu suivant un plan diagonal, et recollé à l'aide d'une couche de baume de Canada (térébenthine issue de la résine du sapin baumier).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nicol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La lumière d'une lampe, polarisée par un nicol et réfléchie par une lame de verre.
This word in other languages
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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