Nacht
The verdict
“Nacht” is uncommon French (frequency #83,189 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,189
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nacht · Nacht · French
Nacht · rank #83,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,189
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH métallos
Nearest frequency peer: métallos (-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 « Nacht »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- médire
médire
16,815 corpus weight
- Ménil
Ménil
16,814 corpus weight
- métallos
métallos
16,813 corpus weight
- Nacht
Nacht
16,812 corpus weight
- Nadaud
Nadaud
16,811 corpus weight
- nata
nata
16,809 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Nacht » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nacht |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Nacht » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Nacht is uncommon French at frequency #83,189 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Nacht doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Nacht, spelled N-A-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Nacht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nacht y parle du narcissisme gardien de la vie, Grunberger y présente ses thèses d’un narcissisme apulsionnel, tandis qu’à cette occasion Francis Pasche développe sa conception dialectique d’un anti-narcissisme s’exerçant en même temps que le narcissisme et relevant d’un mouvement originellement centrifuge d’un psychisme en quête d'objet.
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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