nau
\no\
The verdict
“nau” is uncommon French (frequency #66,152 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,152
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sarcophage, cercueil médiéval.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nau · nau · French
nau · rank #66,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,152
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Najib
Nearest frequency peer: Najib (-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 « nau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nabab
nabab
33,852 corpus weight
- naissantes
naissantes
33,851 corpus weight
- Najib
Najib
33,850 corpus weight
- nau
nau
33,849 corpus weight
- navigations
navigations
33,848 corpus weight
- nervure
nervure
33,847 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \no\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #66,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nau is uncommon French at frequency #66,152 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sarcophage, cercueil médiéval.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for nau in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nau, spelled N-A-U.
Definition
- 1Sarcophage, cercueil médiéval.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les sarcophages, ou naus, ou auges, ou coffres et couvercles funéraires, à Quarré, rangés actuellement au nombre de cent onze pièces autour de l'église paroissiale, offrent quelque diversité quant à leur ornementation, mais une parfaite unité de forme.
C'est Nicolas du Mangin, évêque in partibus de Salone et vicaire général de Georges d'Armagnac qui se déplace pour faire la visite du corps, avec les chanoines et les consuls, le 26 octobre. Ils le trouvent dans une « nau de pierre couverte d'une grande pierre », la tête vers l'autel.
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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