nationale
\na.sjɔ.nal\
The verdict
“nationale” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #510. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #510
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme membre d’une nation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nationale · nationale · French
nationale · rank #510 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #510
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH millions
Nearest frequency peer: millions (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « nationale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hier
hier
99,494 corpus weight
- juillet
juillet
99,493 corpus weight
- millions
millions
99,492 corpus weight
- nationale
nationale
99,491 corpus weight
- nombreux
nombreux
99,490 corpus weight
- parents
parents
99,489 corpus weight
What this shows « nationale » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nationale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.sjɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nationale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around nationale (IPA \na.sjɔ.nal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #510 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for nationale, with forms such as "antionale", "naitonale", and "natinoale". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "nationaux", "nazionale", "nationales", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is nationale, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Femme membre d’une nation.
- 2Route nationale.
- 3La Bibliothèque Nationale, à Paris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nationale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme on s’en aperçoit sur une carte, la Nationale n° 7, dont j’ai dit tout à l’heure qu’elle était dans cette région la ligne frontière entre la Basse et la Haute-Provence, la Nationale n° 7 se rapproche de la mer.
La Nationale 59 bis, c'est d'elle qu'il s'agit, est bonne, sans cailloux ou nids de poules, car les Ponts et Chaussées l'ont dotée d'un tapis de goudron en 1929 mettant fin à un chemin de terre, renforcé de temps en temps par des cylindrages.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- antionale
- naitonale
- natinoale
- natioanle
- nationael
- nationalle
- nationlae
- nationnale
- natoinale
- nattionale
- nnationale
- ntaionale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nationale - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).