Na
The verdict
“Na” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,897) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,897
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Symbole chimique du sodium.
Corpus desk
Index FR-na · Na · French
Na · rank #5,897 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,897
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH médicament
Nearest frequency peer: médicament (-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 « Na »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- médailles
médailles
94,106 corpus weight
- médicament
médicament
94,105 corpus weight
- Na
Na
94,104 corpus weight
- nommer
nommer
94,103 corpus weight
- Néerlandais
Néerlandais
94,102 corpus weight
- offrant
offrant
94,101 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Na » 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 | Na |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #5,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Na »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Na is neighbouring look-alikes ("ne", "ni", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #5,897 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Symbole chimique du sodium.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Na, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ne", "ni", "no", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Na, spelled N-A.
Definition
- 1Symbole chimique du sodium.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Na appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
11 novembre 1940 – Il ramène tous les sentiments à SO₄H₂ and Co. J’aime penser que les larmes ne sont que du CI Na. Ça les rabaisse et c’est tout ce qu’elles méritent.
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.