narguilé
\naʁ.ɡi.le\
The verdict
“narguilé” is uncommon French (frequency #76,824 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,824
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pipe formée d’un fourneau, où brûle le tabac, et d’un long tuyau qui traverse un vase rempli d’eau parfumée, en usage en Turquie, en Perse et au Moyen-Orient.
Corpus desk
Index FR-narguile · narguilé · French
narguilé · rank #76,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,824
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nanomètres
Nearest frequency peer: nanomètres (-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 « narguilé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nafissatou
Nafissatou
23,180 corpus weight
- nagez
nagez
23,179 corpus weight
- nanomètres
nanomètres
23,178 corpus weight
- narguilé
narguilé
23,177 corpus weight
- nettoyages
nettoyages
23,175 corpus weight
- neva
neva
23,174 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « narguilé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | narguilé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \naʁ.ɡi.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « narguilé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
narguilé is uncommon French at frequency #76,824 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \naʁ.ɡi.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
narguilé doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is narguilé, spelled N-A-R-G-U-I-L-É.
Definition
- 1Pipe formée d’un fourneau, où brûle le tabac, et d’un long tuyau qui traverse un vase rempli d’eau parfumée, en usage en Turquie, en Perse et au Moyen-Orient.
- 2Tuyau qui fournit l’air au scaphandrier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how narguilé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ali, silencieux et attentif, apporta le tabac et les narguilés, servit le café et disparut.
Le cheikh n’était plus à sa place. Chose curieuse, le bout doré de son narguilé traînait par terre. D’ordinaire, quand il se levait, il enroulait le tuyau autour du foyer, d’une geste machinal, et retirait le bout pour le garder propre.
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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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