nis
\nis\
The verdict
“nis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,821) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,821
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe actif présent du verbe ní (« se déplacer »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-nis · nis · French
nis · rank #49,821 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,821
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nitrique
Nearest frequency peer: nitrique (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « nis »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- natte
natte
50,183 corpus weight
- nga
nga
50,182 corpus weight
- nis
nis
50,180 corpus weight
- nitrique
nitrique
50,179 corpus weight
- nop
nop
50,178 corpus weight
- noués
noués
50,177 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « nis » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | nis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nis\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « nis »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nis is neighbouring look-alikes ("no", "nu", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \nis\. Frequency #49,821 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Participe actif présent du verbe ní (« se déplacer »).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for nis in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "no", "nu", "ny", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nis, spelled N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Participe actif présent du verbe ní (« se déplacer »).
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).