Naïade
\na.jad\
The verdict
“Naïade” is uncommon French (frequency #96,171 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,171
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nymphe qui présidait à l’eau douce, comme les fontaines, les rivières, les fleuves, fille de Zeus, mère des satyres et des silènes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-naiade · Naïade · French
Naïade · rank #96,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,171
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH neues
Nearest frequency peer: neues (+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 « Naïade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- napperon
napperon
3,835 corpus weight
- nasaux
nasaux
3,834 corpus weight
- natty
natty
3,833 corpus weight
- Naïade
Naïade
3,830 corpus weight
- neues
neues
3,829 corpus weight
- nichés
nichés
3,826 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Naïade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Naïade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \na.jad\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Naïade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Naïade is uncommon French at frequency #96,171 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \na.jad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Naïade in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Naïade, spelled N-A-Ï-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Nymphe qui présidait à l’eau douce, comme les fontaines, les rivières, les fleuves, fille de Zeus, mère des satyres et des silènes.
- 2Satellite naturel de la planète Neptune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Naïade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Divinement et terriblement éblouie, elle vit la Naïade lui sourire d’un sourire qui semblait attirer et promettre, et elle eut le pressentiment des mortelles amours…
Une nymphe des eaux, une Naïade, par conséquent une fontaine.
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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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