nala
/ˈnɑlɑ/
The verdict
“nala” is uncommon French (frequency #67,726 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a postp. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,726
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - {Sur, dessus, après.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nala · nala · French
nala · rank #67,726 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,726
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nabuchodonosor
Nearest frequency peer: nabuchodonosor (-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 « nala »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- métayers
métayers
32,278 corpus weight
- nabuchodono…
nabuchodonosor
32,276 corpus weight
- nala
nala
32,275 corpus weight
- nanotechnol…
nanotechnologie
32,274 corpus weight
- Naomie
Naomie
32,273 corpus weight
- narrations
narrations
32,272 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nala » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Postp |
| IPA | /ˈnɑlɑ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nala » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nala is uncommon French at frequency #67,726 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as apostp, transcribed /ˈnɑlɑ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "{Sur, dessus, après.".
nala has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 nala, spelled N-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1{Sur, dessus, après.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nala appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dálá seđelat ja minttat šaddet áiggi nala dohkkemeahttumin.
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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