nippons
\ni.pɔ̃\
The verdict
“nippons” is uncommon French (frequency #61,736 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,736
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de nippon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nippons · nippons · French
nippons · rank #61,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,736
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nile
Nearest frequency peer: Nile (-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 « nippons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- neuroleptiq…
neuroleptiques
38,268 corpus weight
- nigra
nigra
38,267 corpus weight
- Nile
Nile
38,266 corpus weight
- nippons
nippons
38,265 corpus weight
- nonchalamme…
nonchalamment
38,264 corpus weight
- normatives
normatives
38,263 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nippons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nippons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ni.pɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nippons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nippons is uncommon French at frequency #61,736 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ni.pɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de nippon.".
nippons has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is nippons, spelled N-I-P-P-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de nippon.
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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