naughty
\ˈnɔː.ti\
The verdict
“naughty” is uncommon French (frequency #53,511 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,511
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Malin, méchant, vilain, maudit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-naughty · naughty · French
naughty · rank #53,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,511
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nasse
Nearest frequency peer: nasse (-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 « naughty »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mésange
mésange
46,493 corpus weight
- métayer
métayer
46,492 corpus weight
- nasse
nasse
46,491 corpus weight
- naughty
naughty
46,490 corpus weight
- nerds
nerds
46,488 corpus weight
- Nguesso
Nguesso
46,487 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « naughty » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | naughty |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈnɔː.ti\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « naughty » en français
Rare enough to double-check
naughty is uncommon French at frequency #53,511 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈnɔː.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Malin, méchant, vilain, maudit.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for naughty, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is naughty, spelled N-A-U-G-H-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Malin, méchant, vilain, maudit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how naughty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The child has been naughty. He must be punished.
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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