nuée
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,934
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
nuée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nuage étendu, épais, sombre. Pronounced \nɥe\. Often confused with nul and nus.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nuée is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɥe\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,934 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for nuée, with forms such as "nnuée", "nuee", and "nueé". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nul", "nus", "nuit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is nuée, spelled N-U-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nnuée,nuee,nueé,néue,unée
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Misspelling Variants of "nuée"
Frequency rank: #32,934 in French
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