niels
\njɛl\
The verdict
“niels” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,948. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,948
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de niel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niels · niels · French
niels · rank #37,948 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,948
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nicée
Nearest frequency peer: Nicée (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « niels »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Netanyahou
Netanyahou
62,056 corpus weight
- Niang
Niang
62,055 corpus weight
- Nicée
Nicée
62,054 corpus weight
- niels
niels
62,053 corpus weight
- nourritures
nourritures
62,051 corpus weight
- numérotées
numérotées
62,050 corpus weight
What this shows « niels » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | niels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \njɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « niels »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around niels (IPA \njɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,948 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de niel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for niels, with forms such as "inels", "neils", and "niells". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Nil", "nis", "Noël", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is niels, spelled N-I-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de niel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inels
- neils
- niells
- nielss
- niesl
- niles
- nniels
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of niels - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).