nigauds
\ni.ɡo\
The verdict
“nigauds” is uncommon French (frequency #73,382 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,382
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de nigaud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nigauds · nigauds · French
nigauds · rank #73,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,382
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH neurotoxique
Nearest frequency peer: neurotoxique (-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 « nigauds »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- needle
needle
26,622 corpus weight
- neigeait
neigeait
26,621 corpus weight
- neurotoxique
neurotoxique
26,620 corpus weight
- nigauds
nigauds
26,619 corpus weight
- niçoises
niçoises
26,618 corpus weight
- nobilis
nobilis
26,617 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nigauds » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nigauds |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ni.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nigauds » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nigauds is uncommon French at frequency #73,382 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ni.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de nigaud.".
nigauds has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nigauds, spelled N-I-G-A-U-D-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de nigaud.
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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