nationalité

/\na.sjɔ.na.li.te\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,087

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

nationalité is aFrenchnoun. It means: État d’une personne qui est membre d’une nation particulière. Pronounced \na.sjɔ.na.li.te\. It ranks #4,087 in French word frequency. Often confused with nationalités and nationale.

Key facts for nationalité
PropertyValue
Headwordnationalité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\na.sjɔ.na.li.te\
Letters11
Frequency rank#4,087
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of nationalité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for nationalité is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \na.sjɔ.na.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,087 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for nationalité, with forms such as "antionalité", "naitonalité", and "natinoalité". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "nationalités", "nationale", "nationaliste", 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 nationalité, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    État d’une personne qui est membre d’une nation particulière.
  2. 2
    Caractéristique d’un groupe de personnes unies par une communauté de langue, de culture ou de religion et existant en tant que nation.
  3. 3
    Groupe humain qui existe ou qui cherche à exister comme nation ; peuple d’une nation.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: antionalité,naitonalité,natinoalité,natioanlité,nationailté,nationalite,nationalitté,nationaliét,nationallité,nationaltié,nationlaité,nationnalité,natoinalité,nattionalité,nnationalité,ntaionalité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nationalité

Misspelling Variants of "nationalité"

antionalité11naitonalité11natinoalité11natioanlité11nationailté11nationalite11nationalitté12nationaliét11
Misspelling Variants of "nationalité"

Frequency rank: #4,087 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nationalité"?
"nationalité" is spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \na.sjɔ.na.li.te\.
What does "nationalité" mean?
As a noun, "nationalité" means: État d’une personne qui est membre d’une nation particulière.
What words are commonly confused with "nationalité"?
"nationalité" is commonly confused with "nationalités", "nationale", "nationaliste". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "nationalité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nationalité" is \na.sjɔ.na.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nationalité" come from?
"nationalité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.