nuit noire
\nɥi nwaʁ\
The verdict
“nuit noire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le plus profond, le plus noir, de la nuit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nuit-noire · nuit noire · French
nuit noire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nuit noire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɥi nwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nuit noire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nuit noire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɥi nwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Le plus profond, le plus noir, de la nuit.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nuit noire in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nuit noire, spelled N-U-I-T- -N-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Le plus profond, le plus noir, de la nuit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nuit noire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était nuit noire lorsque nous arrivâmes à Chamouny.
Comme nous étions à l’automne, nos journées de marche étaient moins longues que dans l’été, et nous prenions nos dispositions pour arriver autant que possible dans les villages où nous devions coucher, avant que la nuit fût tout à fait tombée. Cependant bien que nous eussions forcé le pas, surtout dans la fin de notre étape, nous n’entrâmes à Dreuzy qu’à…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.