nuer
\nɥe\
The verdict
“nuer” is uncommon French (frequency #87,894 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,894
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assortir, disposer des couleurs, dans des ouvrages de laine ou de soie, etc., de manière qu'il se fasse une diminution insensible d'une couleur à l'autre, ou d'une même couleur, en allant du clair ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-nuer · nuer · French
nuer · rank #87,894 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,894
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nudisme
Nearest frequency peer: nudisme (-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 « nuer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Noémi
Noémi
12,110 corpus weight
- nucleus
nucleus
12,109 corpus weight
- nudisme
nudisme
12,108 corpus weight
- nuer
nuer
12,107 corpus weight
- Nussbaum
Nussbaum
12,105 corpus weight
- nutri
nutri
12,104 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nuer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nuer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nɥe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nuer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nuer is uncommon French at frequency #87,894 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \nɥe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Assortir, disposer des couleurs, dans des ouvrages de laine ou de soie, etc., de manière qu'il se fasse une diminution insensible d'une couleur à l'autre, ou d'une même couleur, en allant du clair ...".
nuer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nuer, spelled N-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Assortir, disposer des couleurs, dans des ouvrages de laine ou de soie, etc., de manière qu'il se fasse une diminution insensible d'une couleur à l'autre, ou d'une même couleur, en allant du clair à l'obscur, ou de l'obscur au clair.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nuer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il eut soin de nuer le céleste plumage des plus fines teintes de l'arc-en-ciel.
Cela est très bien nué.
Synonyms
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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