nae
The verdict
“nae” is uncommon French (frequency #90,965 among 86,328 “N” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,965
- frequency rank, French
- 86,328
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pas de. Indique la négation.
| 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) |
Where “nae” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
nae is uncommon French at frequency #90,965 among 86,328 “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.
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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Using “nae”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-A-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.