nivéole
\ni.ve.ɔl\
The verdict
“nivéole” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante herbacée à bulbes et toxique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niveole · nivéole · French
nivéole · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nivéole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.ve.ɔl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
nivéole is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ni.ve.ɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante herbacée à bulbes et toxique.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nivéole, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nivéole, spelled N-I-V-É-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Plante herbacée à bulbes et toxique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nivéole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La lisière de ce bois, vers l’Est, est couverte, de la fin de février à la fin de mars, de petites fleurs blanches qui forment un vaste tapis de près de deux kilomètres. Ce sont, des nivéoles, que les gens du pays appellent des glaudinettes.
Quels parterres auront pu ainsi être établis artificiellement dans les bois d’agrément avec les pervenches, les primevères, les scilles, les cyclamens, les sceaux de Salomon, les galanthes, les nivéoles, le saxifrage ombreux, etc… ^([sic : etc.]) […]
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.