nit
\nit\
The verdict
“nit” is uncommon French (frequency #76,831 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,831
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de luminance officieuse égale à la candela par mètre carré (cd/m²).
Corpus desk
Index FR-nit · nit · French
nit · rank #76,831 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,831
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nohant
Nearest frequency peer: Nohant (+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 « nit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- neva
neva
23,174 corpus weight
- nichon
nichon
23,173 corpus weight
- nikel
nikel
23,172 corpus weight
- nit
nit
23,170 corpus weight
- Nohant
Nohant
23,169 corpus weight
- nomenclatur…
nomenclatures
23,168 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nit\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nit is uncommon French at frequency #76,831 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité de mesure de luminance officieuse égale à la candela par mètre carré (cd/m²).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for nit in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 nit, spelled N-I-T.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de luminance officieuse égale à la candela par mètre carré (cd/m²).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet écran est désormais capable d’afficher un pic de luminosité de 2 000 nits qui devrait lui permettre de restituer les vidéos filmées de façon plus naturelle encore.
Synonyms
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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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