nage indienne

/\na.ʒ‿ɛ̃.djɛn\/ noun

The verdict

“nage indienne” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
13
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nage qui se pratique allongé sur le côté, un des bras allongé, pendant que l’autre a un mouvement semblable à celui de la nage du papillon ; les jambes quant à elles font un ciseau de brasse.

Key facts for nage indienne
PropertyValue
Headwordnage indienne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\na.ʒ‿ɛ̃.djɛn\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “nage indienne” sits in French frequency

nage indienne falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for nage indienne is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \na.ʒ‿ɛ̃.djɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nage qui se pratique allongé sur le côté, un des bras allongé, pendant que l’autre a un mouvement semblable à celui de la nage du papillon ; les jambes quant à elles font un ciseau de brasse.".

No misspelling variants are generated for nage indienne in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is nage indienne, spelled N-A-G-E- -I-N-D-I-E-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nage qui se pratique allongé sur le côté, un des bras allongé, pendant que l’autre a un mouvement semblable à celui de la nage du papillon ; les jambes quant à elles font un ciseau de brasse.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nage indienne"?
"nage indienne" is spelled N-A-G-E- -I-N-D-I-E-N-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \na.ʒ‿ɛ̃.djɛn\.
What does "nage indienne" mean?
As a noun, "nage indienne" means: Nage qui se pratique allongé sur le côté, un des bras allongé, pendant que l’autre a un mouvement semblable à celui de la nage du papillon ; les jambes quant à elles font un ciseau de brasse.
How do you pronounce "nage indienne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nage indienne" is \na.ʒ‿ɛ̃.djɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nage indienne" come from?
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Using “nage indienne”

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

  • The one correct French spelling is N-A-G-E- -I-N-D-I-E-N-N-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \na.ʒ‿ɛ̃.djɛn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.