niña
\ˈni.ɲa\
The verdict
“niña” is uncommon French (frequency #89,972 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,972
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fillette, fille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nina · niña · French
niña · rank #89,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,972
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nihil
Nearest frequency peer: nihil (-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 « niña »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nibelungen
Nibelungen
10,032 corpus weight
- Nicks
Nicks
10,031 corpus weight
- nihil
nihil
10,030 corpus weight
- niña
niña
10,029 corpus weight
- nore
nore
10,028 corpus weight
- Novossibirsk
Novossibirsk
10,027 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « niña » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | niña |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈni.ɲa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « niña » en français
Rare enough to double-check
niña is uncommon French at frequency #89,972 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈni.ɲa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for niña in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 niña, spelled N-I-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Fillette, fille.
- 2Pupille de l'œil.
- 3Pucelle, vierge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how niña appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une niña de la calle.
La niña de mis ojos.
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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