navette
\na.vɛt\
The verdict
“navette” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #9,881 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,881
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instrument de tisserand, qui sert à porter et à faire courir le fil, la soie, la laine entre les fils de la chaîne du métier à tisser. Elle est mobile et généralement formée d’une pièce de bois all...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | navette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.vɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “navette” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for navette is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \na.vɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,881 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for navette, with forms such as "anvette", "naevtte", and "navete". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "nette", "navettes", "navet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is navette, spelled N-A-V-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument de tisserand, qui sert à porter et à faire courir le fil, la soie, la laine entre les fils de la chaîne du métier à tisser. Elle est mobile et généralement formée d’une pièce de bois allongée et pointue aux extrémités, et creusée d’une cavité garnie d’une broche où s’enfile la canette.
- 2Pièce du mécanisme d’une machine à coudre qui contient le fil de dessous.
- 3Petit récipient allongé, en forme de nef.
- 4Petit récipient allongé, en forme de nef.
- 5Gâteau provençal sec en forme de barque, aromatisé avec du concentré ou de l’eau de fleurs d’oranger.
- 6Petit pain de forme oblongue.
- 7Liaison réciproque d’allers et retours entre deux lieux.
- 8Service de transport qui assure régulièrement la correspondance entre deux lignes ou la liaison entre deux points plus ou moins rapprochés.
- 9Le véhicule qui assure cette liaison.
- 10Allers et retours entre deux entités, pour l’élaboration d’un projet.
- 11Allers et retours entre deux entités, pour l’élaboration d’un projet.
- 12Meuble représentant l’outil de tisserand du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée en pal. La forme ancienne est un losange aux angles adoucis. Lorsqu’une surface est recouverte de navettes de couleurs alternées, on la dit navettée. Parfois, la navette peut être chargée de fil. On dit alors que sa canette est nourrie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: anvette,naevtte,navete,navetet,navtete,navvette,nnavette,nvaette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of navette - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “navette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-A-V-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \na.vɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “nette” - see the side-by-side comparison. navette vs nette
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.