nielle
\njɛl\
The verdict
“nielle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adventice culturale, de la famille des Caryophyllacées et du genre Agrostemma, en raréfaction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nielle · nielle · French
nielle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | nielle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \njɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
nielle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \njɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
nielle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nielle, spelled N-I-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Adventice culturale, de la famille des Caryophyllacées et du genre Agrostemma, en raréfaction.
- 2Nigelle (Nigella arvensis).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nielle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’année d’avant, leur disait-on, rien n’avait poussé: […]. Et pendant l’hiver, ils mangeaient du son et des grains de nielle.
Je veux simplement examiner la toxicité de certaines graines étrangères qui se trouvent mélangées à l’avoine en proportion parfois importante et auxquelles on attribue des propriétés toxiques : l’ivraie enivrante et la nielle.
This word in other languages
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.