navire
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,092
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
navire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bateau qui sert à naviguer sur mer. Pronounced \na.viʁ\. It ranks #3,092 in French word frequency. Often confused with noire and nuire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | navire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.viʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for navire is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \na.viʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,092 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for navire, with forms such as "anvire", "naivre", and "navier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "noire", "nuire", "nazie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is navire, spelled N-A-V-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bateau qui sert à naviguer sur mer.
- 2Meuble représentant un bâtiment de fort tonnage dans les armoiries. Sa représentation est si variée que le blasonnement doit être exhaustif pour éviter les erreurs. Il faut préciser le nombre de mâts ou le type de navire auquel on fait référence. Si les voiles sont d’une couleur autre que le navire, on le dit habillé. S’il est représenté avec son agrès, il est dit équipé. Si des pavillons sont visibles en haut des mâts, on le dit flammé. S’il est posé sur une onde (mer, rivière…), on le dit flottant ou voguant. À rapprocher de bateau, drakkar, flobard, gabarot, galère, nef et vaisseau.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: anvire,naivre,navier,navirre,navrie,navvire,nnavire,nvaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for navire
Misspelling Variants of "navire"
Frequency rank: #3,092 in French
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