Nicomédie
\ni.kɔ.me.di\
The verdict
“Nicomédie” is uncommon French (frequency #88,934 among 86,328 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,934
- frequency rank, French
- 86,328
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ancien nom désignant aujourd’hui la ville turque moderne d’Izmit. Cité grecque puis romaine d’Asie Mineure, capitale du royaume de Bithynie fondée au IIIᵉ siècle av. J.-C., devenue par la suite une...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nicomédie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ni.kɔ.me.di\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nicomédie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Nicomédie is uncommon French at frequency #88,934 among 86,328 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ni.kɔ.me.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien nom désignant aujourd’hui la ville turque moderne d’Izmit. Cité grecque puis romaine d’Asie Mineure, capitale du royaume de Bithynie fondée au IIIᵉ siècle av. J.-C., devenue par la suite une...".
Zero misspellings are on record for Nicomédie in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Nicomédie, spelled N-I-C-O-M-É-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom désignant aujourd’hui la ville turque moderne d’Izmit. Cité grecque puis romaine d’Asie Mineure, capitale du royaume de Bithynie fondée au IIIᵉ siècle av. J.-C., devenue par la suite une importante résidence impériale de l’Empire romain d’Orient avant la fondation de Constantinople.
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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Using “Nicomédie”
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- The one correct French spelling is N-I-C-O-M-É-D-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.