Naplouse
\na.pluz\
The verdict
“Naplouse” is uncommon French (frequency #62,465 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,465
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de Palestine située entre le mont Ebal et le mont Gerizim à environ 50 kilomètres au nord de Jérusalem.
Corpus desk
Index FR-naplouse · Naplouse · French
Naplouse · rank #62,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,465
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nar
Nearest frequency peer: nar (+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 « Naplouse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- méchancetés
méchancetés
37,539 corpus weight
- Médéric
Médéric
37,538 corpus weight
- Naplouse
Naplouse
37,536 corpus weight
- nar
nar
37,535 corpus weight
- Nase
Nase
37,534 corpus weight
- nationalisée
nationalisée
37,533 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Naplouse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Naplouse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \na.pluz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Naplouse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Naplouse is uncommon French at frequency #62,465 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \na.pluz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville de Palestine située entre le mont Ebal et le mont Gerizim à environ 50 kilomètres au nord de Jérusalem.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Naplouse, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Naplouse, spelled N-A-P-L-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Ville de Palestine située entre le mont Ebal et le mont Gerizim à environ 50 kilomètres au nord de Jérusalem.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Naplouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La route de Naplouse à Jaffa.
This word in other languages
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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