nasses
\nas\
The verdict
“nasses” is uncommon French (frequency #86,956 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,956
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de nasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nasses · nasses · French
nasses · rank #86,956 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,956
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH napolitaines
Nearest frequency peer: napolitaines (-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 « nasses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- naba
naba
13,048 corpus weight
- Nancéien
Nancéien
13,047 corpus weight
- napolitaines
napolitaines
13,046 corpus weight
- nasses
nasses
13,045 corpus weight
- navetteurs
navetteurs
13,044 corpus weight
- nescafé
nescafé
13,042 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nasses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nasses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nasses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nasses is uncommon French at frequency #86,956 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de nasse.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for nasses in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nasses, spelled N-A-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de nasse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nasses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Effaçant le bedon, il se faufila entre la Prolétaire et la Sainte-Vierge-du-Mont-Carmel – deux barques, bien sûr – et poursuivit son chemin en zigzags parmi les avirons, les piles de voiles, les rouleaux de cordages, les nasses en fil de fer, les têtes de poissons pourries, les tas de coquilles vides, lambis, burgaux, palourdes, huîtres sauvages.
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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