Nathanaël
\na.ta.na.ɛl\
The verdict
“Nathanaël” is uncommon French (frequency #66,937 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,937
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin d’origine biblique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nathanael · Nathanaël · French
Nathanaël · rank #66,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,937
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nance
Nearest frequency peer: nance (-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 « Nathanaël »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mélodramati…
mélodramatique
33,068 corpus weight
- mémère
mémère
33,067 corpus weight
- namurois
namurois
33,066 corpus weight
- nance
nance
33,065 corpus weight
- Nathanaël
Nathanaël
33,064 corpus weight
- naturalisat…
naturalisations
33,063 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Nathanaël » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nathanaël |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \na.ta.na.ɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Nathanaël » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Nathanaël is uncommon French at frequency #66,937 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \na.ta.na.ɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin d’origine biblique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Nathanaël in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Nathanaël, spelled N-A-T-H-A-N-A-Ë-L.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin d’origine biblique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nathanaël appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais observé le rite dans mon enfance lorsque Nathanaël, le guérisseur de Cana, se rendait auprès des grands malades.
Il en a été de même pour Les nourritures terrestres, avec Nathanaël et les passages sur la ferveur, sur le désir, sur la lucidité aussi, pas toujours facile à assumer.
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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