natte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#49,818
in French word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
natte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tissu de paille, de jonc, de roseau, etc., fait ordinairement de trois brins ou cordons entrelacés, et servant à couvrir les planchers, à revêtir les murs des chambres, etc. Pronounced \nat\. Often confused with Note and naze.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | natte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nat\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for natte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nat\. Corpus data places it at rank #49,818 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 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for natte, with forms such as "natet", "nnatte", and "ntate". 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, "Note", "naze", "notre", 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 natte, spelled N-A-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tissu de paille, de jonc, de roseau, etc., fait ordinairement de trois brins ou cordons entrelacés, et servant à couvrir les planchers, à revêtir les murs des chambres, etc.
- 2Toute sorte de tresse de fil, de soie, etc., lorsqu’elles sont faites au moins de trois brins ou cordons.
- 3Cheveux tressés en natte.
- 4Décor sculpté imitant une tresse, elle ne doit pas être confondue avec la torsade ou les brins sont tordus alors que là ils sont tressés. Cet ornement est caractéristique du style romano-byzantin selon Émile Bosc.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: natet,nnatte,ntate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "natte"
Frequency rank: #49,818 in French
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