nions
\njɔ̃\
The verdict
“nions” is uncommon French (frequency #98,298 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,298
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de nier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nions · nions · French
nions · rank #98,298 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,298
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nio
Nearest frequency peer: nio (-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 « nions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nightclub
nightclub
1,707 corpus weight
- nimbe
nimbe
1,705 corpus weight
- nio
nio
1,704 corpus weight
- nions
nions
1,703 corpus weight
- nodal
nodal
1,701 corpus weight
- notifiant
notifiant
1,700 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \njɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nions is uncommon French at frequency #98,298 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \njɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nions, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nions, spelled N-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de nier.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de nier.
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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