nitrites
\ni.tʁit\
The verdict
“nitrites” is uncommon French (frequency #63,957 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,957
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de nitrite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nitrites · nitrites · French
nitrites · rank #63,957 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,957
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nir
Nearest frequency peer: nir (-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 « nitrites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- neurotransm…
neurotransmetteurs
36,048 corpus weight
- nir
nir
36,045 corpus weight
- nitrites
nitrites
36,044 corpus weight
- Numerama
Numerama
36,042 corpus weight
- nuovo
nuovo
36,041 corpus weight
- nutritionni…
nutritionnistes
36,040 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nitrites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nitrites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.tʁit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nitrites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nitrites is uncommon French at frequency #63,957 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ni.tʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de nitrite.".
nitrites doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nitrites, spelled N-I-T-R-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de nitrite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nitrites appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur les images, on voit l’auteur en train d’acheter un flacon de poppers, cette substance contenant des nitrites d’alkyle qui est inhalée pour son effet euphorisant, pour moins de 5 € dans un Carrefour City de Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme).
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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