nue
\ny\
The verdict
“nue” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,681) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,681
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de nuage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nue · nue · French
nue · rank #5,681 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,681
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nucléaires
Nearest frequency peer: nucléaires (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « nue »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Naples
Naples
94,322 corpus weight
- nucléaires
nucléaires
94,321 corpus weight
- nue
nue
94,320 corpus weight
- occidentaux
occidentaux
94,319 corpus weight
- occupent
occupent
94,318 corpus weight
- offensive
offensive
94,317 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « nue » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ny\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « nue »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nue is neighbouring look-alikes ("ny", "nul", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ny\. Frequency #5,681 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Synonyme de nuage.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nue, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ny", "nul", "nus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is nue, spelled N-U-E.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de nuage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cependant l’obscurité redouble : les nuages abaissés entrent sous l’ombrage des bois. La nue se déchire, et l’éclair trace un rapide losange de feu.
C’est la loi de mes pères, répondit Rébecca ; elle leur a été donnée au milieu des foudres de la tempête, sur le mont Sinaï, dans la nue et dans le feu.
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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