nanane
French, noun/na.nan/
nanane is spelled N-A-N-A-N-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written French, the 231,570th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nanane is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of nanan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mot dont les enfants se servent et dont on se sert en leur parlant, et qui signifie friandises, sucreries”.
What does nanane mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative spelling of nanan
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mot dont les enfants se servent et dont on se sert en leur parlant, et qui signifie friandises, sucreries.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of nanane
- nananes plural
- nanan
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nanane?
- /na.nan/
- \na.nan\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is nanane in French?
nanane appears about once in every 54 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).