napoléoniens
\na.pɔ.le.ɔ.njɛ̃\
The verdict
“napoléoniens” is uncommon French (frequency #98,285 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,285
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de napoléonien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-napoleoniens · napoléoniens · French
napoléoniens · rank #98,285 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,285
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH naviguaient
Nearest frequency peer: naviguaient (+2 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 « napoléoniens »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mérovingien…
mérovingiennes
1,720 corpus weight
- métissées
métissées
1,719 corpus weight
- napoléoniens
napoléoniens
1,716 corpus weight
- naviguaient
naviguaient
1,714 corpus weight
- nep
nep
1,713 corpus weight
- nettie
nettie
1,712 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « napoléoniens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | napoléoniens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \na.pɔ.le.ɔ.njɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #98,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « napoléoniens » en français
Rare enough to double-check
napoléoniens is uncommon French at frequency #98,285 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \na.pɔ.le.ɔ.njɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de napoléonien.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for napoléoniens, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is napoléoniens, spelled N-A-P-O-L-É-O-N-I-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de napoléonien.
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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