niée
\nje\
The verdict
“niée” is uncommon French (frequency #54,761 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,761
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de nié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niee · niée · French
niée · rank #54,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,761
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nivôse
Nearest frequency peer: nivôse (-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 « niée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nichent
nichent
45,243 corpus weight
- Nicéphore
Nicéphore
45,242 corpus weight
- nivôse
nivôse
45,241 corpus weight
- niée
niée
45,240 corpus weight
- Nougaro
Nougaro
45,238 corpus weight
- nudiste
nudiste
45,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « niée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | niée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nje\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « niée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
niée is uncommon French at frequency #54,761 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de nié.".
niée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is niée, spelled N-I-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de nié.
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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