nasse
\nas\
The verdict
“nasse” is uncommon French (frequency #53,510 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,510
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument d’osier ou de fil de fer, en forme d’entonnoir, servant à prendre du poisson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nasse · nasse · French
nasse · rank #53,510 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,510
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH métayer
Nearest frequency peer: métayer (-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 « nasse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- méprenez
méprenez
46,494 corpus weight
- mésange
mésange
46,493 corpus weight
- métayer
métayer
46,492 corpus weight
- nasse
nasse
46,491 corpus weight
- naughty
naughty
46,490 corpus weight
- nerds
nerds
46,488 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nasse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nas\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nasse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nasse is uncommon French at frequency #53,510 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for nasse, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is nasse, spelled N-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument d’osier ou de fil de fer, en forme d’entonnoir, servant à prendre du poisson.
- 2Sorte de filet pour prendre les petits oiseaux.
- 3Encerclement de personnes avec un cordon de policiers.
- 4Situation fâcheuse, piège.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les nasses de forme ovale à queue pointue et petite entrée servent à attraper poissons, anguilles, crabes…
Si on met de cette composition dans une nasse ou autres filets, les poissons y accourent en foule.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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