nature
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#727
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
nature is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble des êtres et des choses, monde, univers. Ensemble en tant qu’ordonné et régi par des lois. Pronounced \na.tyʁ\. It ranks #727 in French word frequency. Often confused with notre and navire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nature |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nature is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \na.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #727 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for nature, with forms such as "anture", "natrue", and "natture". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "notre", "navire", "naturel", 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 nature, spelled N-A-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des êtres et des choses, monde, univers. Ensemble en tant qu’ordonné et régi par des lois.
- 2Puissance, force active et créatrice.
- 3Campagne avec ses aspects divers, mer, montagnes, bois, prés, rivières.
- 4Productions qui ne sont pas de la main de l’homme.
- 5Essence d’un être ou d’une chose avec les attributs physiques ou moraux qui lui sont propres.
- 6Complexion, tempérament, disposition, tendance de chaque individu. Par extension, il peut se dire, dans la même acception, des animaux.
- 7Faculté innée qui rend l’homme capable de discerner le bien et le mal.
- 8Éléments constitutifs, propriété d’un objet matériel.
- 9Instinct de chaque être animé ; mouvement qui le porte vers les choses nécessaires à sa conservation.
- 10Principe de vie qui anime et soutient le corps.
- 11État originel de l’homme, par opposition à l’état de grâce ou l’état de l’homme tel qu’on le suppose antérieurement à toute civilisation.
- 12Modèle, soit physique, soit moral, des arts d’imitation.
- 13Ce que l’artiste a sous les yeux pour l’imiter.
- 14Sorte ; espèce.
- 15Organes sexuels extérieurs.
- 16Classe lexicale d’un mot, tel que les noms, les verbes, les adjectifs, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: anture,natrue,natture,natuer,naturre,nautre,nnature,ntaure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nature
Misspelling Variants of "nature"
Frequency rank: #727 in French
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