nus
\ny\
The verdict
“nus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,091) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,091
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de nu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nus · nus · French
nus · rank #7,091 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,091
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH notions
Nearest frequency peer: notions (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « nus »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- mondiaux
mondiaux
92,913 corpus weight
- moutons
moutons
92,912 corpus weight
- notions
notions
92,911 corpus weight
- nus
nus
92,910 corpus weight
- om
om
92,909 corpus weight
- organique
organique
92,908 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « nus » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | nus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ny\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « nus »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nus is neighbouring look-alikes ("ny", "N", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ny\. Frequency #7,091 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de nu.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ny", "N", "ne", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is nus, spelled N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de nu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les heures de ces dimanches pareillement nus, glissent, lentes, torpides.
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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