Nantucket
\nan.ty.kɛt\
The verdict
“Nantucket” is uncommon French (frequency #81,378 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,378
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île du Massachusset (États-Unis).
Corpus desk
Index FR-nantucket · Nantucket · French
Nantucket · rank #81,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,378
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nanomatériaux
Nearest frequency peer: nanomatériaux (-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 « Nantucket »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ménestrels
ménestrels
18,629 corpus weight
- métissages
métissages
18,627 corpus weight
- nanomatéria…
nanomatériaux
18,624 corpus weight
- Nantucket
Nantucket
18,623 corpus weight
- naviguez
naviguez
18,621 corpus weight
- neigeuse
neigeuse
18,618 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Nantucket » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nantucket |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \nan.ty.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Nantucket » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Nantucket is uncommon French at frequency #81,378 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \nan.ty.kɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Île du Massachusset (États-Unis).".
No misspelling variants are generated for Nantucket in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Nantucket, spelled N-A-N-T-U-C-K-E-T.
Definition
- 1Île du Massachusset (États-Unis).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Nantucket appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The centre of this grisly trade is the island town of Nantucket, which, like Martha's Vineyard, is now a neat and pretty, if somewhat sterile, heritage and holiday resort.
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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