nappa
\na.pa\
The verdict
“nappa” is uncommon French (frequency #89,963 among 86,328 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,963
- frequency rank, French
- 86,328
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de napper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nappa · nappa · French
nappa · rank #89,963 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,963
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 86,328
- PHOTO-FINISH nanisme
Nearest frequency peer: nanisme (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “nappa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- nanars
nanars
10,040 corpus weight
- nanisme
nanisme
10,039 corpus weight
- nappa
nappa
10,038 corpus weight
- nationalisés
nationalisés
10,037 corpus weight
- Nemtsov
Nemtsov
10,036 corpus weight
- neuromuscul…
neuromusculaire
10,035 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “nappa” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nappa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \na.pa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nappa” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
nappa is uncommon French at frequency #89,963 among 86,328 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \na.pa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de napper.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nappa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nappa, spelled N-A-P-P-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de napper.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.