natif
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,751
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
natif is anFrenchadj. It means: Qualifie des personnes, en parlant de la ville, du lieu où elles ont pris naissance, et suppose ordinairement l’établissement fixe des parents, l’éducation, etc. ; à la différence de né qui peut su... Pronounced \na.tif\. Often confused with nazi and nazis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | natif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \na.tif\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for natif is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \na.tif\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,751 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for natif, with forms such as "antif", "naitf", and "natfi". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nazi", "nazis", "nazie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is natif, spelled N-A-T-I-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualifie des personnes, en parlant de la ville, du lieu où elles ont pris naissance, et suppose ordinairement l’établissement fixe des parents, l’éducation, etc. ; à la différence de né qui peut supposer seulement la naissance accidentelle.
- 2Se dit du métal qui se trouve dans la terre sous la forme métallique, sans être minéralisé par sa combinaison avec d’autres substances.
- 3À l’état originel.
- 4Qui est naturel.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: antif,naitf,natfi,natiff,nattif,nnatif,ntaif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for natif
Misspelling Variants of "natif"
Frequency rank: #10,751 in French
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