Nîmes
\nim\
The verdict
“Nîmes” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,708. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,708
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Gard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nimes · Nîmes · French
Nîmes · rank #9,708 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,708
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH négatives
Nearest frequency peer: négatives (-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 « Nîmes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nage
nage
90,297 corpus weight
- négatives
négatives
90,294 corpus weight
- Nîmes
Nîmes
90,293 corpus weight
- nôtres
nôtres
90,292 corpus weight
- observateurs
observateurs
90,291 corpus weight
- OCDE
OCDE
90,290 corpus weight
What this shows « Nîmes » 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 | Nîmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \nim\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Nîmes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Nîmes (IPA \nim\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,708 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Gard.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nîmes, with forms such as "nimes", "nmîes", and "nnîmes". 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, "nis", "noms", "nues", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Nîmes, spelled N-Î-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département du Gard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nîmes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Nîmes, j’allai voir les Arènes : c’est un ouvrage beaucoup plus magnifique que le pont du Gard, et qui me fit beaucoup moins d’impression, soit que mon admiration se fût épuisée sur le premier objet, soit que la situation de l’autre au milieu d’une ville fût moins propre à l’exciter.
Si les Mémoires d’Alfieri eussent été publiés en 1803, je n’aurais pas quitté Marseille sans visiter le rocher des bains du poète. […] Je revins par le Languedoc et la Gascogne. À Nîmes, les Arènes et la Maison−Carrée n’étaient pas encore dégagées : cette année 1838, je les ai vues dans leur exhumation.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nimes
- nmîes
- nnîmes
- nîems
- nîmess
- nîmmes
- nîmse
- înmes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Nîmes - 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).