nid d’aigle
\ni d‿ɛɡl\
The verdict
“nid d’aigle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bâtiment construit en montagne, en un lieu élevé et d'accès difficile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nid-d-aigle · nid d’aigle · French
nid d’aigle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nid d’aigle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni d‿ɛɡl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nid d’aigle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nid d’aigle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ni d‿ɛɡl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bâtiment construit en montagne, en un lieu élevé et d'accès difficile.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nid d’aigle, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 nid d’aigle, spelled N-I-D- -D-’-A-I-G-L-E.
Definition
- 1Bâtiment construit en montagne, en un lieu élevé et d'accès difficile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nid d’aigle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au moyen âge, Gibraltar eût été hérissé de donjons, de tours, de tourelles, de remparts crénelés ; au lieu de se tenir au bas, la forteresse eût escaladé la montagne et se fût posée comme un nid d’aigle sur la crête la plus aiguë.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.