nazaréen
\na.za.ʁe.ɛ̃\
The verdict
“nazaréen” is uncommon French (frequency #75,938 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,938
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Nazareth, en Palestine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nazareen · nazaréen · French
nazaréen · rank #75,938 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,938
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH NATU
Nearest frequency peer: NATU (-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 « nazaréen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nardi
nardi
24,066 corpus weight
- Natchez
Natchez
24,065 corpus weight
- NATU
NATU
24,064 corpus weight
- nazaréen
nazaréen
24,063 corpus weight
- Ndoye
Ndoye
24,061 corpus weight
- nerve
nerve
24,060 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nazaréen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nazaréen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \na.za.ʁe.ɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nazaréen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nazaréen is uncommon French at frequency #75,938 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \na.za.ʁe.ɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for nazaréen, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nazaréen, spelled N-A-Z-A-R-É-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à Nazareth, en Palestine.
- 2Chrétien, du Christ.
- 3Relatif au mouvement pictural germanique de renouveau de la peinture religieuse au début du XIXᵉ siècle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nazaréen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jean-Paul II, regardant la maison nazaréenne à Lorette, fait un vœu pour tous les enfants du monde.
La nuit commençait à geler dur. Les rues étaient aussi désertes qu’une crypte nazaréenne. Seuls les boulangers étaient encore éveillés. — (Daniel Nayeri, Brigade des crimes imaginaires, dans Brigade des crimes imaginaires et autres histoires fantastiques et déglinguées, traduit de l’anglais par Valérie Le Plouhinec, Hélium, 2008, page 23)
Synonyms
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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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