nuire
\nɥiʁ\
The verdict
“nuire” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,468. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,468
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Causer du tort ; porter dommage à quelque chose ou à quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nuire · nuire · French
nuire · rank #7,468 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,468
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nommés
Nearest frequency peer: nommés (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « nuire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- médicales
médicales
92,536 corpus weight
- nobles
nobles
92,535 corpus weight
- nommés
nommés
92,534 corpus weight
- nuire
nuire
92,533 corpus weight
- occurrence
occurrence
92,532 corpus weight
- opportunités
opportunités
92,531 corpus weight
What this shows « nuire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | nuire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nɥiʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nuire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around nuire (IPA \nɥiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,468 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Causer du tort ; porter dommage à quelque chose ou à quelqu’un.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for nuire, with forms such as "niure", "nnuire", and "nuier". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nuit", "nulle", "nuits", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is nuire, spelled N-U-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Causer du tort ; porter dommage à quelque chose ou à quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nuire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; elle lui pardonna une légèreté d'esprit, dont, après tout, elle n'avait jamais souffert : quand les défauts des autres ne nous nuisent pas, il est rare qu'ils nous choquent beaucoup.
L’échalassement , s'il est mal soigné , nuit à tous les ceps , mais sur-tout aux jeunes ; ils sont trop foibles pour se soutenir par eux-mêmes, [].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- niure
- nnuire
- nuier
- nuirre
- nurie
- unire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nuire - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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