natte

/\nat\/ noun

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.

Key facts for natte
PropertyValue
Headwordnatte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nat\
Letters5
Frequency rank#49,818
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Toute sorte de tresse de fil, de soie, etc., lorsqu’elles sont faites au moins de trois brins ou cordons.
  3. 3
    Cheveux tressés en natte.
  4. 4
    Décor 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for natte

Misspelling Variants of "natte"

natet5nnatte6ntate5
Misspelling Variants of "natte"

Frequency rank: #49,818 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "natte"?
"natte" is spelled N-A-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \nat\.
What does "natte" mean?
As a noun, "natte" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "natte"?
"natte" is commonly confused with "Note", "naze", "notre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "natte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "natte" is \nat\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "natte" come from?
"natte" 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.