names
\ˈneɪmz\
The verdict
“names” is uncommon French (frequency #55,459 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,459
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de name.
Corpus desk
Index FR-names · names · French
names · rank #55,459 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,459
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nant
Nearest frequency peer: nant (+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 « names »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- métallisé
métallisé
44,546 corpus weight
- métaphoriqu…
métaphoriquement
44,545 corpus weight
- names
names
44,542 corpus weight
- nant
nant
44,541 corpus weight
- Nasr
Nasr
44,540 corpus weight
- Nassim
Nassim
44,539 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « names » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | names |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈneɪmz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « names » en français
Rare enough to double-check
names is uncommon French at frequency #55,459 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈneɪmz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de name.".
names has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 names, spelled N-A-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de name.
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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