niés
\nje\
The verdict
“niés” is uncommon French (frequency #90,978 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,978
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de nié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nies · niés · French
niés · rank #90,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,978
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Ninove
Nearest frequency peer: Ninove (-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 « niés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nicoletta
Nicoletta
9,026 corpus weight
- nieuw
nieuw
9,025 corpus weight
- Ninove
Ninove
9,024 corpus weight
- niés
niés
9,023 corpus weight
- nourriront
nourriront
9,022 corpus weight
- obéissaient
obéissaient
9,020 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « niés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | niés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nje\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « niés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
niés is uncommon French at frequency #90,978 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de nié.".
Zero misspellings are on record for niés in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is niés, spelled N-I-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel 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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