nappe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,521
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
nappe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Linge dont on couvre la table. Pronounced \nap\. Often confused with naze and nope.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nappe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nap\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nappe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nap\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,521 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for nappe, with forms such as "anppe", "nape", and "napep". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "naze", "nope", "nazie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is nappe, spelled N-A-P-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Linge dont on couvre la table.
- 2Tout assemblage de fil qui se présente à plat.
- 3Assemblage de fils à plat reliant la carte mère à certains périphériques. On utilise parfois le terme de limande.
- 4Vaste étendue.
- 5Ensemble des eaux comprises dans la zone saturée d’un horizon du sol ou d’un aquifère.
- 6Sorte de filet.
- 7Peau du cerf qu’on étend par terre, quand on veut donner la curée aux chiens.
- 8Partie connexe d’un hyperboloïde.
- 9Ensemble de sons prolongés, faiblement rythmés.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: anppe,nape,napep,nnappe,npape
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nappe
Misspelling Variants of "nappe"
Frequency rank: #14,521 in French
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