Nabokov
The verdict
“Nabokov” is uncommon French (frequency #54,747 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,747
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille russe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nabokov · Nabokov · French
Nabokov · rank #54,747 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,747
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH médiatiquement
Nearest frequency peer: médiatiquement (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Nabokov »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- muraux
muraux
45,257 corpus weight
- Mythos
Mythos
45,256 corpus weight
- médiatiquem…
médiatiquement
45,255 corpus weight
- Nabokov
Nabokov
45,254 corpus weight
- nationalisé
nationalisé
45,253 corpus weight
- nee
nee
45,252 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Nabokov » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nabokov |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Nabokov » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Nabokov is uncommon French at frequency #54,747 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille russe.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Nabokov in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Nabokov, spelled N-A-B-O-K-O-V.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille russe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nabokov appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vladimir Nabokov.
Véra Nabokov.
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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