Natchez
The verdict
“Natchez” is uncommon French (frequency #75,936 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,936
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peuple amérindien qui vivait dans la région de l'actuelle ville de Natchez dans le Mississippi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-natchez · Natchez · French
Natchez · rank #75,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,936
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nardi
Nearest frequency peer: nardi (-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 « Natchez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mûriers
mûriers
24,068 corpus weight
- Nairo
Nairo
24,067 corpus weight
- nardi
nardi
24,066 corpus weight
- Natchez
Natchez
24,065 corpus weight
- NATU
NATU
24,064 corpus weight
- nazaréen
nazaréen
24,063 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Natchez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Natchez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Natchez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Natchez is uncommon French at frequency #75,936 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peuple amérindien qui vivait dans la région de l'actuelle ville de Natchez dans le Mississippi.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Natchez in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Natchez, spelled N-A-T-C-H-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Peuple amérindien qui vivait dans la région de l'actuelle ville de Natchez dans le Mississippi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Natchez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
NATCHEZ, (Géogr.) peuple de l’Amérique septentrionale dans la Louisiane, sur le bord oriental du Mississipi, & à environ 80 lieues de l’embouchure de ce fleuve. […] En 1630, les François firent la guerre aux Natchez, en tuerent un grand nombre, & les disperserent tellement, qu’ils ne font plus un corps de nation. Ils raserent ensuite leurs villages & leur…
Jadis il avait vu l’Europe, et la cour du roi Louis-Philippe. Il nous conta ses impressions d’alors et ses étonnements ; on eût cru entendre le vieux Chactas contant aux Natchez sa visite au Roi-Soleil.
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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