nap
\nap\
The verdict
“nap” is uncommon French (frequency #51,623 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,623
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce de 20 francs or encore appelée napoléon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nap · nap · French
nap · rank #51,623 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,623
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Mönchengladba…
Nearest frequency peer: Mönchengladbach (-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 « nap »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- métairie
métairie
48,381 corpus weight
- méthyle
méthyle
48,380 corpus weight
- Mönchenglad…
Mönchengladbach
48,379 corpus weight
- nap
nap
48,378 corpus weight
- navi
navi
48,376 corpus weight
- neck
neck
48,375 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nap » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nap\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #51,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nap » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nap is uncommon French at frequency #51,623 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nap\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pièce de 20 francs or encore appelée napoléon.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for nap in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nap, spelled N-A-P.
Definition
- 1Pièce de 20 francs or encore appelée napoléon.
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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