nir
\nir\
The verdict
“nir” is uncommon French (frequency #63,956 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,956
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent de ní (« se déplacer »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-nir · nir · French
nir · rank #63,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,956
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nitrites
Nearest frequency peer: nitrites (+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 « nir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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36,049 corpus weight
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36,048 corpus weight
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36,045 corpus weight
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36,044 corpus weight
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36,042 corpus weight
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36,041 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nir\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nir is uncommon French at frequency #63,956 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \nir\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du présent de ní (« se déplacer »).".
nir has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 nir, spelled N-I-R.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent de ní (« se déplacer »).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rekeon, moi muvapa, lava nir koo batyon yaxay aze traspur koo ujiwa.
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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