naseaux
\na.zo\
The verdict
“naseaux” is uncommon French (frequency #78,673 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,673
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de naseau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-naseaux · naseaux · French
naseaux · rank #78,673 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,673
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH neel
Nearest frequency peer: neel (+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 « naseaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- naan
naan
21,331 corpus weight
- naseaux
naseaux
21,328 corpus weight
- neel
neel
21,327 corpus weight
- nera
nera
21,326 corpus weight
- nettoyait
nettoyait
21,325 corpus weight
- neutralisées
neutralisées
21,324 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « naseaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | naseaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.zo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « naseaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
naseaux is uncommon French at frequency #78,673 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \na.zo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de naseau.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for naseaux, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 naseaux, spelled N-A-S-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de naseau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how naseaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’agissait à première vue d’un équidé, sabots à ressorts, naseaux, tiges filetées hennissantes, crinière fildeuf et rondelles à crottin.
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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