nivôse
\ni.voz\
The verdict
“nivôse” is uncommon French (frequency #54,760 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,760
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quatrième mois du calendrier républicain, qui commençait, suivant les années, le 21 ou le 22 décembre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nivose · nivôse · French
nivôse · rank #54,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,760
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nicéphore
Nearest frequency peer: Nicéphore (-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 « nivôse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- niait
niait
45,244 corpus weight
- nichent
nichent
45,243 corpus weight
- Nicéphore
Nicéphore
45,242 corpus weight
- nivôse
nivôse
45,241 corpus weight
- niée
niée
45,240 corpus weight
- Nougaro
Nougaro
45,238 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nivôse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nivôse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.voz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nivôse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nivôse is uncommon French at frequency #54,760 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ni.voz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quatrième mois du calendrier républicain, qui commençait, suivant les années, le 21 ou le 22 décembre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nivôse, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is nivôse, spelled N-I-V-Ô-S-E.
Definition
- 1Quatrième mois du calendrier républicain, qui commençait, suivant les années, le 21 ou le 22 décembre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nivôse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Charette, qui, depuis la prise de Noirmoutiers par les républicains, ne disposait plus que de faibles bandes, sévit de nouveau à la tête d’une armée; et, le 26 nivôse (15 janvier), il fut en mesure de battre les bleus à Chancé et à Légé : […].
This word in other languages
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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