nai
\naj\
The verdict
“nai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,063) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,063
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flute de Pan roumaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nai · nai · French
nai · rank #36,063 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,063
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH naîtra
Nearest frequency peer: naîtra (+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 « nai »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- mythologiqu…
mythologiques
63,941 corpus weight
- mélodrame
mélodrame
63,940 corpus weight
- nai
nai
63,938 corpus weight
- naîtra
naîtra
63,937 corpus weight
- nitro
nitro
63,936 corpus weight
- nocives
nocives
63,935 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « nai » 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 | nai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \naj\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « nai »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for nai is neighbouring look-alikes ("ne", "ni", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \naj\. Frequency #36,063 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Flute de Pan roumaine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nai in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ne", "ni", "no", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is nai, spelled N-A-I.
Definition
- 1Flute de Pan roumaine.
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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