nankin
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,194
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
nankin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Toile de coton épaisse de couleur jaune chamois, faite avec une variété de coton qui possède naturellement cette couleur sans teinture Pronounced \nɑ̃.kɛ̃\. Often confused with nantis and nain.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nankin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɑ̃.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nankin is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɑ̃.kɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,194 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Toile de coton épaisse de couleur jaune chamois, faite avec une variété de coton qui possède naturellement cette couleur sans teinture".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for nankin, with forms such as "annkin", "naknin", and "nanikn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "nantis", "nain", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is nankin, spelled N-A-N-K-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Toile de coton épaisse de couleur jaune chamois, faite avec une variété de coton qui possède naturellement cette couleur sans teinture
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: annkin,naknin,nanikn,nankinn,nankkin,nankni,nannkin,nnakin,nnankin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nankin
Misspelling Variants of "nankin"
Frequency rank: #45,194 in French
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