nautile
\no.til\
The verdict
“nautile” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mollusque céphalopode à coquille divisée en plusieurs cellules.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nautile · nautile · French
nautile · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nautile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \no.til\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nautile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nautile is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \no.til\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mollusque céphalopode à coquille divisée en plusieurs cellules.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for nautile, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nautile, spelled N-A-U-T-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Mollusque céphalopode à coquille divisée en plusieurs cellules.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nautile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mis à part les nautiles, les céphalopodes actuels sont dépourvus de coquille externe. Les céphalopodes porteurs d’une coquille ont été autrefois beaucoup plus diversifiés, comme en témoignent les nombreux fossiles de céphalopodes comme les ammonites et le bélemnites.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.