nim
\nim\
The verdict
“nim” is uncommon French (frequency #69,268 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,268
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - autre orthographe de neem.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nim · nim · French
nim · rank #69,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,268
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Niortais
Nearest frequency peer: Niortais (+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 « nim »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nebula
nebula
30,737 corpus weight
- nevermind
nevermind
30,736 corpus weight
- nicodème
nicodème
30,735 corpus weight
- nim
nim
30,733 corpus weight
- Niortais
Niortais
30,732 corpus weight
- noirâtres
noirâtres
30,730 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nim » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nim\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nim » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nim is uncommon French at frequency #69,268 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nim\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "autre orthographe de neem.".
nim has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nim, spelled N-I-M.
Definition
- 1autre orthographe de neem.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nim appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette propriété est particulièrement utilisée pour les graines stockées : l’enrobage des graines avec de la poudre ou de l’huile de nim empêche les pontes et l’alimentation des adultes.
Le bois contiendrait 0,1% de gédunine, limonoïde ayant une action antipaludique et que l’on trouve dans de nombreuses autres espèces de Meliaceae, par ex. le nim (Azadirachta indica A.Juss.).
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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