ny
\ˈ\
The verdict
“ny” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,201) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,201
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nous.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ny · ny · French
ny · rank #10,201 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,201
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH montent
Nearest frequency peer: montent (-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 « ny »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- minéraux
minéraux
89,803 corpus weight
- mobiliser
mobiliser
89,802 corpus weight
- montent
montent
89,801 corpus weight
- ny
ny
89,800 corpus weight
- ordures
ordures
89,799 corpus weight
- orientations
orientations
89,798 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ny » 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 | ny |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \ˈ\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #10,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ny »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ny is neighbouring look-alikes ("Nyon", "N", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \ˈ\. Frequency #10,201 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Nous.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ny in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Nyon", "N", "ne", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ny, spelled N-Y.
Definition
- 1Nous.
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.