Niger
\ni.ʒɛʁ\
The verdict
“Niger” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,741. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,741
- 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 fleuve d’Afrique en longueur, prenant sa source en Guinée et traversant le Mali, le Niger et le Nigeria avant de se jeter dans le golfe de Guinée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niger · Niger · French
Niger · rank #8,741 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,741
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH natation
Nearest frequency peer: natation (-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 « Niger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Mitterrand
Mitterrand
91,263 corpus weight
- mou
mou
91,262 corpus weight
- natation
natation
91,261 corpus weight
- Niger
Niger
91,260 corpus weight
- night
night
91,259 corpus weight
- obscurité
obscurité
91,258 corpus weight
What this shows « Niger » 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 | Niger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ni.ʒɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Niger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Niger (IPA \ni.ʒɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #8,741 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Niger, with forms such as "inger", "ngier", and "niegr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Nike", "nine", "noter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Niger, spelled N-I-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Troisième fleuve d’Afrique en longueur, prenant sa source en Guinée et traversant le Mali, le Niger et le Nigeria avant de se jeter dans le golfe de Guinée.
- 2République du Niger, pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest dont la capitale est Niamey.
- 3État de Niger, le plus grand des 36 États fédérés du Nigeria, qui a pour capitale Minna.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Niger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ressort de la rencontre que la faible pluviométrie et le dragage sont en train de menacer les cours du fleuve Niger en aval, singulièrement le Sankarani.
Le bateau transportait plus d’une centaine de paysans traversant le fleuve Niger pour se rendre sur leurs cultures situées de l’autre côté, dans l’État du Niger, lorsque l’embarcation a chaviré, a indiqué dans un communiqué Garba Salihu, le responsable de l’Agence de gestion des secours de cet État.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inger
- ngier
- niegr
- nigerr
- nigger
- nigre
- nniger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Niger - 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
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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).