NATU
\na.ty\
The verdict
“NATU” is uncommon French (frequency #75,937 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,937
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe d’entreprises de l’économie numérique tendant à supplanter les GAFA.
Corpus desk
Index FR-natu · NATU · French
NATU · rank #75,937 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,937
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Natchez
Nearest frequency peer: Natchez (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « NATU »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nairo
Nairo
24,067 corpus weight
- nardi
nardi
24,066 corpus weight
- Natchez
Natchez
24,065 corpus weight
- NATU
NATU
24,064 corpus weight
- nazaréen
nazaréen
24,063 corpus weight
- Ndoye
Ndoye
24,061 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « NATU » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | NATU |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.ty\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « NATU » en français
Rare enough to double-check
NATU is uncommon French at frequency #75,937 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \na.ty\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Groupe d’entreprises de l’économie numérique tendant à supplanter les GAFA.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for NATU, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is NATU, spelled N-A-T-U.
Definition
- 1Groupe d’entreprises de l’économie numérique tendant à supplanter les GAFA.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how NATU appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Encore des néo-acronymes anglo-saxons au menu aujourd’hui ! Levons le suspens tout de suite. GAFAM regroupe les initiales de Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft et NATU ceux de Netflix, Air BNB, Tesla et Uber.
Natu, c’est l’acronyme de l’été 2015 ; celui qui réunit les quatre grandes entreprises emblématiques de la « disruption » numérique : Netflix, Airbnb, Tesla et Uber.
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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