navajo
\na.va.ʁo\
The verdict
“navajo” is uncommon French (frequency #56,134 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,134
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue amérindienne parlée par les Navajos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-navajo · navajo · French
navajo · rank #56,134 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,134
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nieto
Nearest frequency peer: nieto (+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 « navajo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- métonymie
métonymie
43,872 corpus weight
- navajo
navajo
43,867 corpus weight
- nieto
nieto
43,866 corpus weight
- nigériens
nigériens
43,865 corpus weight
- node
node
43,864 corpus weight
- Nomura
Nomura
43,863 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « navajo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | navajo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.va.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « navajo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
navajo is uncommon French at frequency #56,134 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \na.va.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue amérindienne parlée par les Navajos.".
No misspelling variants are generated for navajo in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 navajo, spelled N-A-V-A-J-O.
Definition
- 1Langue amérindienne parlée par les Navajos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how navajo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le navajo compte plus de locuteurs que n’importe quelle autre langue amérindienne au nord de la frontière entre le Mexique et les États-Unis.
Synonyms
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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