Nicot
The verdict
“Nicot” is uncommon French (frequency #70,883 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,883
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, connu en particulier par Jean Nicot (1530-1600).
Corpus desk
Index FR-nicot · Nicot · French
Nicot · rank #70,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,883
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH niaiseux
Nearest frequency peer: niaiseux (-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 « Nicot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nemanja
Nemanja
29,121 corpus weight
- neri
neri
29,120 corpus weight
- niaiseux
niaiseux
29,119 corpus weight
- Nicot
Nicot
29,118 corpus weight
- nitroglycér…
nitroglycérine
29,117 corpus weight
- nourricier
nourricier
29,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Nicot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nicot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Nicot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Nicot is uncommon French at frequency #70,883 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille, connu en particulier par Jean Nicot (1530-1600).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Nicot in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Nicot, spelled N-I-C-O-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, connu en particulier par Jean Nicot (1530-1600).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nicot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Colomb envoya de la graine de tabac en Europe vers 1518, et 40 ans plus tard, sous François II, Nicot, notre ambassadeur en Portugal, qui en avait reçu du grand prieur de Lisbonne, l’introduisit en France. On l’appela alors nicotiane pour rappeler le nom de son importateur, herbe de l’ambassadeur, herbe sainte, herbe du grand-prieur, herbe de Sainte-Croix.
Ce premier long métrage d’Emmanuelle Nicot met au jour une femme enfant que les services sociaux extirpent des griffes de son père.
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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