nachos
\na.tʃos\
The verdict
“nachos” is uncommon French (frequency #77,736 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,736
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plat composé de chips de maïs en forme de triangle recouvertes de cheddar et passées au four jusqu'à ce que le fromage soit fondant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nachos · nachos · French
nachos · rank #77,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,736
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nantissement
Nearest frequency peer: nantissement (+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 « nachos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- méfions
méfions
22,268 corpus weight
- métamorphis…
métamorphisme
22,267 corpus weight
- nachos
nachos
22,265 corpus weight
- nantissement
nantissement
22,264 corpus weight
- naturalisée
naturalisée
22,263 corpus weight
- nazca
nazca
22,262 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nachos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nachos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.tʃos\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nachos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nachos is uncommon French at frequency #77,736 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \na.tʃos\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plat composé de chips de maïs en forme de triangle recouvertes de cheddar et passées au four jusqu'à ce que le fromage soit fondant.".
Zero misspellings are on record for nachos in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is nachos, spelled N-A-C-H-O-S.
Definition
- 1Plat composé de chips de maïs en forme de triangle recouvertes de cheddar et passées au four jusqu'à ce que le fromage soit fondant.
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); 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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