Nazareth
\na.za.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“Nazareth” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,687. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,687
- frequency rank, French
- 86,328
- “N” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville du nord d’Israël, en Galilée, ville de Joseph et de Marie et lieu de la jeunesse de Jésus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nazareth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \na.za.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nazareth” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Nazareth (IPA \na.za.ʁɛt\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #24,687 among 86,328 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Nazareth, with forms such as "anzareth", "naazreth", and "nazaerth". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Nazareth, spelled N-A-Z-A-R-E-T-H.
Definition
- 1Ville du nord d’Israël, en Galilée, ville de Joseph et de Marie et lieu de la jeunesse de Jésus.
- 2Commune de la province de Flandre-Orientale de la région flamande de Belgique.
- 3Hameau de Pont-Saint-Martin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anzareth
- naazreth
- nazaerth
- nazareht
- nazarethh
- nazaretth
- nazarreth
- nazarteh
- nazraeth
- nazzareth
- nnazareth
- nzaareth
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Nazareth - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “Nazareth”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-A-Z-A-R-E-T-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \na.za.ʁɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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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.