nasale

\na.zal\

/\na.zal\/ noun

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The verdict

“nasale” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,799. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,799
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Consonne nasale, c’est-à-dire dont le son passe par les fosses nasales.

Corpus desk

Index FR-nasale · nasale · French

nasale · rank #33,799 · 8 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,799
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH nageoires

Nearest frequency peer: nageoires (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « nasale »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « nasale » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

nasale vs Natal
50% similar
nasale vs natale
83% similar
nasale vs navale
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for nasale
PropertyValue
Headwordnasale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\na.zal\
Letters6
Frequency rank#33,799
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nasale »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.nasalese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « nageoires » (#33,798), « Nespresso » (#33,800), « nacional » (#33,797). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « nasale » est au #33,799. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around nasale (IPA \na.zal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,799 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for nasale, with forms such as "ansale", "naasle", and "nasael". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Natal", "natale", "navale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is nasale, spelled N-A-S-A-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Consonne nasale, c’est-à-dire dont le son passe par les fosses nasales.
  2. 2
    Voyelle nasale.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how nasale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le consonantisme français contient, en particulier, la nasale palatale, la fricative ou vibrante uvulaire, l'articulation dentale des [t d n]. L'anglais a des fricatives dentales, la nasale vélaire, les affriquées, les [p t k] aspirés sous accent, l'assibilation des [s z t d].
  2. Lorsqu'il parle le français, l’Hautevillois distingue sans difficulté la nasale un de in, on ou an, bien qu'il ne connaisse en patois que les trois phonèmes nasals ẽ, õ et ã.

This word in other languages

Nasal(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ansale
  • naasle
  • nasael
  • nasalle
  • naslae
  • nassale
  • nnasale
  • nsaale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nasale - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ansale2naasle2nasael2nasalle1naslae2nassale1nnasale1nsaale2
Edit distance from "nasale"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nasale"?
"nasale" is spelled N-A-S-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \na.zal\.
What does "nasale" mean?
As a noun, "nasale" means: Consonne nasale, c’est-à-dire dont le son passe par les fosses nasales.
What words are commonly confused with "nasale"?
"nasale" is commonly confused with "Natal", "natale", "navale". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "nasale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nasale" is \na.zal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nasale" come from?
"nasale" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nasale", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list