nah
\naː\
The verdict
“nah” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,952) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,952
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proche en distance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nah · nah · French
nah · rank #23,952 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,952
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH méritaient
Nearest frequency peer: méritaient (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « nah »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- muret
muret
76,053 corpus weight
- méconnue
méconnue
76,052 corpus weight
- méritaient
méritaient
76,050 corpus weight
- nah
nah
76,049 corpus weight
- najat
najat
76,048 corpus weight
- naturalisat…
naturalisation
76,046 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « nah » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \naː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « nah »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nah is neighbouring look-alikes ("ne", "ni", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \naː\. Frequency #23,952 among 1,563 “N” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nah, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ne", "ni", "no", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 nah, spelled N-A-H.
Definition
- 1Proche en distance.
- 2Proche en temps.
- 3Proche, intime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In naher Umgebung gibt es viele interessante Wanderungen.
Die Entscheidung, das Interview im Esszimmer durchzuführen, war keine strategische, sondern eine rein intuitive. Das Wohnzimmer erschien mir falsch. Wir müssten auf der Couch sitzen, nah beieinander. Gepolstert, weich. Falsch.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).