niquet
\ni.kɛ\
The verdict
“niquet” is uncommon French (frequency #95,111 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,111
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vulgaire du double tournois frappé par Henri V (roi d’Angleterre et duc de Normandie) à Rouen et à Saint-Lô. Beaucoup plus tard, une pièce de Charles VIII a porté le même nom.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niquet · niquet · French
niquet · rank #95,111 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,111
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH ninette
Nearest frequency peer: ninette (-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 « niquet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nigériennes
nigériennes
4,892 corpus weight
- ninette
ninette
4,891 corpus weight
- niquet
niquet
4,890 corpus weight
- noblesses
noblesses
4,889 corpus weight
- noisetiers
noisetiers
4,888 corpus weight
- nonagénaire
nonagénaire
4,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « niquet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | niquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « niquet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
niquet is uncommon French at frequency #95,111 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ni.kɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom vulgaire du double tournois frappé par Henri V (roi d’Angleterre et duc de Normandie) à Rouen et à Saint-Lô. Beaucoup plus tard, une pièce de Charles VIII a porté le même nom.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for niquet in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is niquet, spelled N-I-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Nom vulgaire du double tournois frappé par Henri V (roi d’Angleterre et duc de Normandie) à Rouen et à Saint-Lô. Beaucoup plus tard, une pièce de Charles VIII a porté le même nom.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how niquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Henry V fist forger une petite monnoye, qu'on nommoit doubles, qui valloient trois doubles ; en commun lengage on les appeloit niquets.
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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