naya
\nɛ.ja\
The verdict
“naya” is uncommon French (frequency #75,036 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,036
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de nayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-naya · naya · French
naya · rank #75,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,036
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nenad
Nearest frequency peer: Nenad (+2 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 « naya »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- narcotique
narcotique
24,969 corpus weight
- nascimento
nascimento
24,968 corpus weight
- naya
naya
24,965 corpus weight
- Nenad
Nenad
24,963 corpus weight
- neuronales
neuronales
24,962 corpus weight
- nihilistes
nihilistes
24,959 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « naya » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | naya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \nɛ.ja\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « naya » en français
Rare enough to double-check
naya is uncommon French at frequency #75,036 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \nɛ.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de nayer.".
Zero misspellings are on record for naya in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 naya, spelled N-A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de nayer.
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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