nuire
French, verb/nɥiʁ/
nuire is spelled N-U-I-R-E (5 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written French, the 7,421st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nuire is a French verb meaning “to harm, to spoil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Causer du tort ; porter dommage à quelque chose ou à quelqu’un”.
What does nuire mean in English?
verb
- 1
to harm, to spoil
Fumer nuit à la santé.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Causer du tort ; porter dommage à quelque chose ou à quelqu’un.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of nuire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- nuisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- nui participle past
- nuis first-person indicative present
- nuit indicative present singular
- nuisons first-person indicative plural
- nuisez indicative plural present
- nuisent indicative plural present
- nuisais first-person imperfect indicative
- nuisait imperfect indicative singular
- nuisions first-person imperfect indicative
- nuisiez imperfect indicative plural
- nuisaient imperfect indicative plural
- nuisis first-person historic indicative
- nuisit historic indicative past
- nuisîmes first-person historic indicative
- nuisîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nuire?
- /nɥiʁ/
- \nɥiʁ\
- [nɥiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is nuire in French?
nuire appears 8.7 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).