nature

/\na.tyʁ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for nature
PropertyValue
Headwordnature
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\na.tyʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#727
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Ensemble des êtres et des choses, monde, univers. Ensemble en tant qu’ordonné et régi par des lois.
  2. 2
    Puissance, force active et créatrice.
  3. 3
    Campagne avec ses aspects divers, mer, montagnes, bois, prés, rivières.
  4. 4
    Productions qui ne sont pas de la main de l’homme.
  5. 5
    Essence d’un être ou d’une chose avec les attributs physiques ou moraux qui lui sont propres.
  6. 6
    Complexion, tempérament, disposition, tendance de chaque individu. Par extension, il peut se dire, dans la même acception, des animaux.
  7. 7
    Faculté innée qui rend l’homme capable de discerner le bien et le mal.
  8. 8
    Éléments constitutifs, propriété d’un objet matériel.
  9. 9
    Instinct de chaque être animé ; mouvement qui le porte vers les choses nécessaires à sa conservation.
  10. 10
    Principe de vie qui anime et soutient le corps.
  11. 11
    État 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.
  12. 12
    Modèle, soit physique, soit moral, des arts d’imitation.
  13. 13
    Ce que l’artiste a sous les yeux pour l’imiter.
  14. 14
    Sorte ; espèce.
  15. 15
    Organes sexuels extérieurs.
  16. 16
    Classe 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"

anture6natrue6natture7natuer6naturre7nautre6nnature7ntaure6
Misspelling Variants of "nature"

Frequency rank: #727 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nature"?
"nature" is spelled N-A-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \na.tyʁ\.
What does "nature" mean?
As a noun, "nature" means: Ensemble des êtres et des choses, monde, univers. Ensemble en tant qu’ordonné et régi par des lois.
What words are commonly confused with "nature"?
"nature" is commonly confused with "notre", "navire", "naturel". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "nature"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nature" is \na.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nature" come from?
"nature" 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.