naze
\naz\
The verdict
“naze” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,845. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,845
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne vaut rien ; qui ne fonctionne pas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-naze · naze · French
naze · rank #13,845 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,845
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH navale
Nearest frequency peer: navale (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « naze »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- motivés
motivés
86,159 corpus weight
- métrages
métrages
86,158 corpus weight
- navale
navale
86,157 corpus weight
- naze
naze
86,156 corpus weight
- nazisme
nazisme
86,155 corpus weight
- Neuilly
Neuilly
86,154 corpus weight
What this shows « naze » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | naze |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \naz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « naze »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around naze (IPA \naz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,845 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for naze, with forms such as "anze", "naez", and "nazze". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ne", "nez", "nue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 naze, spelled N-A-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne vaut rien ; qui ne fonctionne pas.
- 2Qui n’a aucun intérêt.
- 3Fatigué.
- 4Qui n'est bon à rien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how naze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous y apprendrez par exemple que « se faire tilter », c’est se faire percuter, qu’une « caisse », c’est une voiture, une « bécane » une moto, et que si cette bécane est « naze », c’est qu’elle est bien mal en point.
Et tout était naze comme ça… Pour Bellocchio, j’aurais suivi, mais là… Et puis il avait son gourou, la caricature du psy pas net qui essaie d’attraper des gonzesses un peu faibles de caractère ! Je n’ai même pas vu le film.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anze
- naez
- nazze
- nnaze
- nzae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of naze - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "naze", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).