nues
\ny\
The verdict
“nues” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,205) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,205
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de nu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nues · nues · French
nues · rank #9,205 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,205
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noyer
Nearest frequency peer: noyer (-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 « nues »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- mélanger
mélanger
90,799 corpus weight
- mêler
mêler
90,798 corpus weight
- noyer
noyer
90,797 corpus weight
- nues
nues
90,796 corpus weight
- obsession
obsession
90,795 corpus weight
- occupait
occupait
90,794 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « nues » 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 | nues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ny\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « nues »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nues is neighbouring look-alikes ("nul", "nus", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ny\. Frequency #9,205 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de nu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for nues, with forms such as "neus", "nnues", and "nuess". 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is nues, spelled N-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de nu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voudriez-vous que je montrasse mes formes comme ces femmes effrontées qui se décollètent de manière à laisser plonger des regards impudiques sur leurs épaules nues, sur…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- neus
- nnues
- nuess
- nuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nues - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nues", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).