Nausicaa
The verdict
“Nausicaa” is uncommon French (frequency #69,263 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,263
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fille d'Alcinous, princesse phéacienne qui accueille Ulysse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nausicaa · Nausicaa · French
Nausicaa · rank #69,263 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,263
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nationalisées
Nearest frequency peer: nationalisées (-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 « Nausicaa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- narrateurs
narrateurs
30,741 corpus weight
- naso
naso
30,740 corpus weight
- nationalisé…
nationalisées
30,739 corpus weight
- Nausicaa
Nausicaa
30,738 corpus weight
- nebula
nebula
30,737 corpus weight
- nevermind
nevermind
30,736 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Nausicaa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nausicaa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Nausicaa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Nausicaa is uncommon French at frequency #69,263 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fille d'Alcinous, princesse phéacienne qui accueille Ulysse.".
Nausicaa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Nausicaa, spelled N-A-U-S-I-C-A-A.
Definition
- 1Fille d'Alcinous, princesse phéacienne qui accueille Ulysse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Nausicaa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces femmes ont la démarche alerte et vive, la taille souple et cambrée, naturellement fine. Elles portent sur leur tête les paniers, les paquets et les cruches d’eau qui, par parenthèse, sont d’une forme très-élégante. Avec leur amphore sur la tête, leur costume à plis droits, on les prendrait pour des filles grecques et des princesses Nausicaa allant à l…
— une certaine madame Jeanne surtout, vieille paysanne riche, qui s’était prise d’adoration pour moi, qui faisait toutes mes volontés, et qui, chaque fois qu’elle passait, revenant du lavoir comme Nausicaa, roulait d’impayables regards en coulisse du côté de la maison de mon oncle, à mon intention…
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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