nae
The verdict
“nae” is uncommon French (frequency #90,965 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,965
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pas de. Indique la négation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nae · nae · French
nae · rank #90,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,965
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH méiose
Nearest frequency peer: méiose (-2 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 « nae »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mycologie
mycologie
9,040 corpus weight
- mènerons
mènerons
9,039 corpus weight
- méiose
méiose
9,038 corpus weight
- nae
nae
9,036 corpus weight
- nancéiens
nancéiens
9,033 corpus weight
- Nanni
Nanni
9,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nae » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nae |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #90,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nae » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nae is uncommon French at frequency #90,965 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as apronoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pas de. Indique la négation.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nae in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 nae, spelled N-A-E.
Definition
- 1Pas de. Indique la négation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nae appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
nae kind of a man. Nae kind of a man at all.
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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