Narbonnaise
The verdict
“Narbonnaise” is uncommon French (frequency #54,121 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,121
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Province antique du sud de la Gaule, faisant partie de l’Empire romain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-narbonnaise · Narbonnaise · French
Narbonnaise · rank #54,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,121
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH naquirent
Nearest frequency peer: naquirent (-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 « Narbonnaise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- naf
naf
45,883 corpus weight
- nanotechnol…
nanotechnologies
45,882 corpus weight
- naquirent
naquirent
45,881 corpus weight
- Narbonnaise
Narbonnaise
45,880 corpus weight
- nationaliser
nationaliser
45,879 corpus weight
- nav
nav
45,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Narbonnaise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Narbonnaise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Narbonnaise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Narbonnaise is uncommon French at frequency #54,121 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Province antique du sud de la Gaule, faisant partie de l’Empire romain.".
Narbonnaise doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Narbonnaise, spelled N-A-R-B-O-N-N-A-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Province antique du sud de la Gaule, faisant partie de l’Empire romain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Narbonnaise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Narbonnaise est le plus frappant : outre les traces de vignobles, les chais à dolia pour la vinification fleurissent en Languedoc, en Provence, dans la vallée du Rhône et dans les Alpes méridionales.
Il tournait souvent avec inquiétude ses regards vers la Gaule Narbonnaise.
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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