nacré
\na.kʁe\
The verdict
“nacré” is uncommon French (frequency #57,457 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,457
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a l’apparence et l’éclat de la nacre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nacre · nacré · French
nacré · rank #57,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,457
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH mûrissent
Nearest frequency peer: mûrissent (-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 « nacré »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- métropolite
métropolite
42,547 corpus weight
- mûrier
mûrier
42,546 corpus weight
- mûrissent
mûrissent
42,545 corpus weight
- nacré
nacré
42,544 corpus weight
- Nando
Nando
42,543 corpus weight
- nationaleme…
nationalement
42,542 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nacré » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nacré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \na.kʁe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nacré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nacré is uncommon French at frequency #57,457 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \na.kʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a l’apparence et l’éclat de la nacre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nacré, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nacré, spelled N-A-C-R-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a l’apparence et l’éclat de la nacre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nacré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là, au fond, dans l’ombre noire, s’ouvre peut-être la porte de diamant qui mène au royaume nacré habité par les enchanteurs.
Où sont les lampes de tes yeux, les lampes nacrées comme la lune suspendue sur notre été d’amour ?
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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