nuis
\nɥi\
The verdict
“nuis” is uncommon French (frequency #74,235 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,235
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de nuire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nuis · nuis · French
nuis · rank #74,235 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,235
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH novelli
Nearest frequency peer: novelli (-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 « nuis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- notariales
notariales
25,768 corpus weight
- novelli
novelli
25,767 corpus weight
- nuis
nuis
25,766 corpus weight
- Nyons
Nyons
25,765 corpus weight
- oblongues
oblongues
25,764 corpus weight
- obscénités
obscénités
25,763 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nuis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nuis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nɥi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nuis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nuis is uncommon French at frequency #74,235 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \nɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for nuis in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is nuis, spelled N-U-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de nuire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de nuire.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de nuire.
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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