nient
\ni\
The verdict
“nient” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,959. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,959
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de nier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nient · nient · French
nient · rank #23,959 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,959
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nicola
Nearest frequency peer: nicola (-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 « nient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nemo
nemo
76,044 corpus weight
- nicola
nicola
76,043 corpus weight
- nient
nient
76,042 corpus weight
- Nogent
Nogent
76,041 corpus weight
- nomma
nomma
76,040 corpus weight
- Noémie
Noémie
76,039 corpus weight
What this shows « nient » 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 | nient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ni\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around nient (IPA \ni\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,959 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for nient, with forms such as "inent", "neint", and "niennt". 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, "nier", "nine", "niet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nient, spelled N-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de nier.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de nier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les politiques qui, par optimisme, seraient le plus disposés à contester là-dessus, ne nient guère une dégénérescence dont ils sont les premiers à chercher le remède, et, de même qu’on voit l’hygiène perfectionnée de nos jours réussir quelquefois à combattre le névrosisme parisien, ainsi les gouvernements et les particuliers sentent la nécessité de s’ingé…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inent
- neint
- niennt
- nientt
- nietn
- ninet
- nnient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).