nauséeux
\no.ze.ø\
The verdict
“nauséeux” is uncommon French (frequency #71,733 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,733
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui provoque des nausées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nauseeux · nauséeux · French
nauséeux · rank #71,733 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,733
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH napo
Nearest frequency peer: napo (-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 « nauséeux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mémoriel
mémoriel
28,271 corpus weight
- mêlaient
mêlaient
28,270 corpus weight
- napo
napo
28,269 corpus weight
- nauséeux
nauséeux
28,268 corpus weight
- navrante
navrante
28,267 corpus weight
- Nawal
Nawal
28,266 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nauséeux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nauséeux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \no.ze.ø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nauséeux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nauséeux is uncommon French at frequency #71,733 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \no.ze.ø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for nauséeux in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nauséeux, spelled N-A-U-S-É-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui provoque des nausées.
- 2Qui a des nausées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nauséeux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La science ordonne d’avaler les remèdes les plus amers ou les plus nauséeux, nous avalons ; elle conseille de changer quelque chose à nos habitudes, nous refusons.
Nous nous faisons servir du pain, un saucisson plat … et des œufs frits dans une huile un peu nauséeuse.
This word in other languages
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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