nacrée
\na.kʁe\
The verdict
“nacrée” is uncommon French (frequency #91,970 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,970
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de nacré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nacree · nacrée · French
nacrée · rank #91,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,970
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH naa
Nearest frequency peer: naa (-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 « nacrée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Málaga
Málaga
8,035 corpus weight
- mélodrames
mélodrames
8,034 corpus weight
- méningites
méningites
8,033 corpus weight
- naa
naa
8,032 corpus weight
- nacrée
nacrée
8,031 corpus weight
- nacrées
nacrées
8,030 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nacrée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nacrée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \na.kʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nacrée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nacrée is uncommon French at frequency #91,970 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \na.kʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de nacré.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for nacrée in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is nacrée, spelled N-A-C-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de nacré.
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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