nix
\niks\
The verdict
“nix” is uncommon French (frequency #65,356 among 86,328 “N” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,356
- frequency rank, French
- 86,328
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rien, nenni.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nix · nix · French
nix · rank #65,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,356
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 86,328
- PHOTO-FINISH nitrite
Nearest frequency peer: nitrite (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “nix”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- neutralisant
neutralisant
34,650 corpus weight
- NFS
NFS
34,649 corpus weight
- nigaud
nigaud
34,648 corpus weight
- nitrite
nitrite
34,646 corpus weight
- nix
nix
34,645 corpus weight
- nommaient
nommaient
34,643 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “nix” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \niks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #65,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nix” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
nix is uncommon French at frequency #65,356 among 86,328 “N” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed \niks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rien, nenni.".
Zero misspellings are on record for nix in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nix, spelled N-I-X.
Definition
- 1Rien, nenni.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.