niece
\nis\
The verdict
“niece” is uncommon French (frequency #96,177 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,177
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nièce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niece · niece · French
niece · rank #96,177 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,177
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nigger
Nearest frequency peer: nigger (+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 « niece »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- neues
neues
3,829 corpus weight
- nichés
nichés
3,826 corpus weight
- niece
niece
3,824 corpus weight
- nigger
nigger
3,823 corpus weight
- Niobé
Niobé
3,821 corpus weight
- nite
nite
3,820 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « niece » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | niece |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nis\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « niece » en français
Rare enough to double-check
niece is uncommon French at frequency #96,177 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nièce.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for niece, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is niece, spelled N-I-E-C-E.
Definition
- 1Nièce.
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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