nuée
\nɥe\
The verdict
“nuée” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,934. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,934
- frequency rank, French
- 86,328
- “N” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nuage étendu, épais, sombre.
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 | nuée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɥe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nuée” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around nuée (IPA \nɥe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,934 among 86,328 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for nuée, with forms such as "nnuée", "nuee", and "nueé". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nul", "nus", "nuit", 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 is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nuée, spelled N-U-É-E.
Definition
- 1Nuage étendu, épais, sombre.
- 2Une entreprise, un complot, une conspiration, une punition, une vengeance, etc., qui se prépare et qui est près d’éclater.
- 3Une multitude de personnes, d’oiseaux, d’animaux venus par troupes.
- 4Nuage formé d’un très grand nombre d’éléments.
- 5Une grande quantité de choses.
- 6Abstractions vagues et d’idées chimériques.
- 7Meuble représentant de la vapeur opaque dans les armoiries. Souvent en lien avec un élément divin, elle se représente sous la forme d'un agglomérat cotonneux pouvant être mouvant des bords de l’écu (ce qui doit être blasonné). À rapprocher de nuage.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nnuée,nuee,nueé,néue,unée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nuée - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “nuée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-U-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \nɥe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “nul” - see the side-by-side comparison. nuée vs nul
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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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.