nav
\ˈnaw\
The verdict
“nav” is uncommon French (frequency #54,123 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,123
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Neuf.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nav · nav · French
nav · rank #54,123 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,123
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nationaliser
Nearest frequency peer: nationaliser (-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 « nav »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- naquirent
naquirent
45,881 corpus weight
- Narbonnaise
Narbonnaise
45,880 corpus weight
- nationaliser
nationaliser
45,879 corpus weight
- nav
nav
45,878 corpus weight
- nidification
nidification
45,877 corpus weight
- noisetier
noisetier
45,876 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nav » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nav |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈnaw\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #54,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nav » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nav is uncommon French at frequency #54,123 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈnaw\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Neuf.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nav, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is nav, spelled N-A-V.
Definition
- 1Neuf.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nav appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ul lamm-revr a dalv naw.
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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