Nadja

name

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The verdict

“Nadja” is uncommon French (frequency #59,476 among 86,328 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#59,476
frequency rank, French
86,328
“N” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Prénom féminin slovène.

Key facts for Nadja
PropertyValue
HeadwordNadja
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#59,476
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Nadja” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Nadja lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Nadja is uncommon French at frequency #59,476 among 86,328 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin slovène.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for Nadja in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Nadja, spelled N-A-D-J-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin slovène.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Nadja"?
"Nadja" is spelled N-A-D-J-A.
What does "Nadja" mean?
As a proper noun, "Nadja" means: Prénom féminin slovène.
What language does "Nadja" come from?
"Nadja" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “Nadja”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is N-A-D-J-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list