nuisant
\nɥi.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“nuisant” is uncommon French (frequency #76,839 among 86,328 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,839
- frequency rank, French
- 86,328
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participe présent de nuire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nuisant · nuisant · French
nuisant · rank #76,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,839
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 86,328
- PHOTO-FINISH nuri
Nearest frequency peer: nuri (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “nuisant”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- nouba
nouba
23,164 corpus weight
- nuisant
nuisant
23,162 corpus weight
- nuri
nuri
23,161 corpus weight
- négligente
négligente
23,160 corpus weight
- oat
oat
23,159 corpus weight
- oberlin
oberlin
23,158 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “nuisant” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nuisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nɥi.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nuisant” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
nuisant is uncommon French at frequency #76,839 among 86,328 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \nɥi.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de nuire.".
nuisant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 nuisant, spelled N-U-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.