nag
\naːk\
The verdict
“nag” is uncommon French (frequency #87,874 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,874
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de nagen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nag · nag · French
nag · rank #87,874 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,874
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Naboo
Nearest frequency peer: Naboo (-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 « nag »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- môssieur
môssieur
12,131 corpus weight
- Naboo
Naboo
12,128 corpus weight
- nag
nag
12,127 corpus weight
- Nanard
Nanard
12,126 corpus weight
- narthex
narthex
12,125 corpus weight
- natali
natali
12,123 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nag » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nag |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \naːk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #87,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nag » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nag is uncommon French at frequency #87,874 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \naːk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de nagen.".
nag has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is nag, spelled N-A-G.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de nagen.
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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