des nèfles
\dɛ nɛfl\
The verdict
“des nèfles” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. 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) - Non ; exprime un refus net.
Corpus desk
Index FR-des-nefles · des nèfles · French
des nèfles · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | des nèfles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \dɛ nɛfl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « des nèfles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
des nèfles is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \dɛ nɛfl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non ; exprime un refus net.".
des nèfles has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is des nèfles, spelled D-E-S- -N-È-F-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Non ; exprime un refus net.
This word in other languages
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.