nuancés
\nɥɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“nuancés” is uncommon French (frequency #59,487 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,487
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de nuancé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nuances · nuancés · French
nuancés · rank #59,487 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,487
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nuke
Nearest frequency peer: nuke (+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 « nuancés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nesle
Nesle
40,521 corpus weight
- nonante
nonante
40,519 corpus weight
- nuancés
nuancés
40,514 corpus weight
- nuke
nuke
40,513 corpus weight
- nut
nut
40,512 corpus weight
- nyt
nyt
40,510 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nuancés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nuancés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɥɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nuancés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nuancés is uncommon French at frequency #59,487 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \nɥɑ̃.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de nuancé.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for nuancés, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nuancés, spelled N-U-A-N-C-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de nuancé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nuancés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une colonie de clitocybes, aux chapeaux bistre à peine nuancés d’un reflet améthyste, interdisait le passage dans la grande allée.
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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