nab
\næb\
The verdict
“nab” is uncommon French (frequency #86,952 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,952
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voler (prendre illégalement)
Corpus desk
Index FR-nab · nab · French
nab · rank #86,952 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,952
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH naba
Nearest frequency peer: naba (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “nab”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- métallurgis…
métallurgiste
13,052 corpus weight
- métropolisa…
métropolisation
13,051 corpus weight
- nab
nab
13,049 corpus weight
- naba
naba
13,048 corpus weight
- Nancéien
Nancéien
13,047 corpus weight
- napolitaines
napolitaines
13,046 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “nab” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nab |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \næb\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #86,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “nab” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
nab is uncommon French at frequency #86,952 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \næb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for nab, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nab, spelled N-A-B.
Definition
- 1Voler (prendre illégalement)
- 2Saisir, agripper.
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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