niska
\ˈnis.kɑ\
The verdict
“niska” is uncommon French (frequency #66,159 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,159
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nuque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niska · niska · French
niska · rank #66,159 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,159
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noche
Nearest frequency peer: noche (+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 « niska »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Neustrie
Neustrie
33,845 corpus weight
- neuvaine
neuvaine
33,844 corpus weight
- niska
niska
33,842 corpus weight
- noche
noche
33,841 corpus weight
- Nomen
Nomen
33,839 corpus weight
- notifiés
notifiés
33,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « niska » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | niska |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈnis.kɑ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « niska » en français
Rare enough to double-check
niska is uncommon French at frequency #66,159 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈnis.kɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nuque.".
No misspelling variants are generated for niska in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 niska, spelled N-I-S-K-A.
Definition
- 1Nuque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how niska appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hän nosti kätensä niskan taakse.
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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