nivet
\ni.vɛ\
The verdict
“nivet” is uncommon French (frequency #87,884 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,884
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remise que l’on fait par-dessous main à celui qui achète par commission.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nivet · nivet · French
nivet · rank #87,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,884
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nizam
Nearest frequency peer: nizam (+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 « nivet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- negri
negri
12,120 corpus weight
- neurotoxiqu…
neurotoxiques
12,119 corpus weight
- nivet
nivet
12,117 corpus weight
- nizam
nizam
12,116 corpus weight
- Noblet
Noblet
12,115 corpus weight
- nommage
nommage
12,114 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nivet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nivet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nivet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nivet is uncommon French at frequency #87,884 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ni.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Remise que l’on fait par-dessous main à celui qui achète par commission.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nivet in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nivet, spelled N-I-V-E-T.
Definition
- 1Remise que l’on fait par-dessous main à celui qui achète par commission.
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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