natural

adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#23,293

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

natural is anFrenchadj. It means: Naturel, qui appartient à, ou qui vient de la nature. Often confused with nature and naturel.

Key facts for natural
PropertyValue
Headwordnatural
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
Letters7
Frequency rank#23,293
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for natural is 7 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #23,293 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for natural, with forms such as "antural", "natrual", and "nattural". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "nature", "naturel", "natures", 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 natural, spelled N-A-T-U-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Naturel, qui appartient à, ou qui vient de la nature.
  2. 2
    Naturel, qui appartient à, ou qui vient de la nature.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: antural,natrual,nattural,natuarl,naturall,naturla,naturral,nautral,nnatural,ntaural

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for natural

Misspelling Variants of "natural"

antural7natrual7nattural8natuarl7naturall8naturla7naturral8nautral7
Misspelling Variants of "natural"

Frequency rank: #23,293 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "natural"?
"natural" is spelled N-A-T-U-R-A-L.
What does "natural" mean?
As an adj, "natural" means: Naturel, qui appartient à, ou qui vient de la nature.
What words are commonly confused with "natural"?
"natural" is commonly confused with "nature", "naturel", "natures". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "natural" come from?
"natural" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter N in our French index:

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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.