niqab
\ni.kab\
The verdict
“niqab” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,103. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,103
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voile fixé sur la tête, en tant que constituant une forme de hijab, et qui couvre la tête avec une fente permettant de voir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niqab · niqab · French
niqab · rank #26,103 · 7 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #26,103
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nommant
Nearest frequency peer: nommant (+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 « niqab »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mémorables
mémorables
73,902 corpus weight
- nectar
nectar
73,900 corpus weight
- niqab
niqab
73,898 corpus weight
- nommant
nommant
73,897 corpus weight
- nonce
nonce
73,896 corpus weight
- nor
nor
73,895 corpus weight
What this shows « niqab » 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 | niqab |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.kab\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « niqab »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around niqab (IPA \ni.kab\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,103 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Voile fixé sur la tête, en tant que constituant une forme de hijab, et qui couvre la tête avec une fente permettant de voir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for niqab, with forms such as "inqab", "niaqb", and "niqabb". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "nique", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 niqab, spelled N-I-Q-A-B.
Definition
- 1Voile fixé sur la tête, en tant que constituant une forme de hijab, et qui couvre la tête avec une fente permettant de voir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how niqab appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous n’avons certes pas monté d’association, ni manifesté notre réticence à cette loi en défilant dans les rues, mais plutôt fait le choix de détourner la représentation classique que l’on a du niqab.
Il faisait valoir que «le respect ne doit pas altérer le fait que le hijab, le niqab et la burka sont aussi des instruments d’oppression pour des millions de filles et de femmes dans le monde qui n’ont pas la possibilité de faire un choix».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inqab
- niaqb
- niqabb
- niqba
- niqqab
- nniqab
- nqiab
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of niqab - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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