nageoire
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,415
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
nageoire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Organe extérieur, formé d’une membrane soutenue par des rayons osseux, des poissons et des animaux marins, qui leur sert d’appareil propulseur et stabilisateur. Pronounced \na.ʒwaʁ\. Often confused with nageoires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nageoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.ʒwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nageoire is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \na.ʒwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,415 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for nageoire, with forms such as "angeoire", "naegoire", and "nageiore". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "nageoires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 nageoire, spelled N-A-G-E-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Organe extérieur, formé d’une membrane soutenue par des rayons osseux, des poissons et des animaux marins, qui leur sert d’appareil propulseur et stabilisateur.
- 2Objet dont on se sert pour se maintenir sur l’eau quand on apprend à nager.
- 3Flotteurs latéraux qui empêchent l’appareil de chavirer.
- 4Bras.
- 5Rondelle de bois très plate, que les manœuvres font flotter sur les seaux pleins, pour empêcher l’eau balancée par leur marche, de jaillir au dehors.
- 6Barbe qui garnit les joues.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: angeoire,naegoire,nageiore,nageoier,nageoirre,nageorie,naggeoire,nagoeire,ngaeoire,nnageoire
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Misspelling Variants of "nageoire"
Frequency rank: #39,415 in French
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