navre
\navʁ\
The verdict
“navre” is uncommon French (frequency #90,971 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,971
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de navrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-navre · navre · French
navre · rank #90,971 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,971
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH naville
Nearest frequency peer: naville (-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 « navre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nancéiens
nancéiens
9,033 corpus weight
- Nanni
Nanni
9,032 corpus weight
- naville
naville
9,031 corpus weight
- navre
navre
9,030 corpus weight
- NBs
NBs
9,028 corpus weight
- Nicoletta
Nicoletta
9,026 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « navre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | navre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \navʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « navre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
navre is uncommon French at frequency #90,971 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \navʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
navre has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is navre, spelled N-A-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de navrer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de navrer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de navrer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de navrer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de navrer.
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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