nid
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,871
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
nid is aFrenchnoun. It means: Abri en forme de petite corbeille que les oiseaux construisent pour y déposer leurs œufs et y élever leurs petits. Pronounced \ni\. It ranks #7,871 in French word frequency. Often confused with no and nu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nid is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ni\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,871 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for nid in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "no", "nu", "ny", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is nid, spelled N-I-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abri en forme de petite corbeille que les oiseaux construisent pour y déposer leurs œufs et y élever leurs petits.
- 2Nidification, période où les oiseaux couvent et élèvent leur progéniture.
- 3Logement que se construisent certains animaux ; endroit où ils se retirent.
- 4Endroit caché, cachette, retraite.
- 5Endroit confortable.
- 6(Par analogie avec le guêpier ou nid de guêpes qui rassemble un petit nombre d’éléments hostiles) Petit groupe, caché ou non, de personnes ou de choses dangereuses.
- 7Sphère accrochée à un filer et destinée à servir de logement.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #7,871 in French
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