nazir
\na.ziːʁ\
The verdict
“nazir” is uncommon French (frequency #88,928 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,928
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ascète juif, naziréen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nazir · nazir · French
nazir · rank #88,928 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,928
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Navarrais
Nearest frequency peer: Navarrais (-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 « nazir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- narrow
narrow
11,077 corpus weight
- Navarrais
Navarrais
11,074 corpus weight
- nazir
nazir
11,073 corpus weight
- neuropsycho…
neuropsychologie
11,070 corpus weight
- Niccolo
Niccolo
11,068 corpus weight
- Nicomédie
Nicomédie
11,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nazir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nazir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.ziːʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nazir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nazir is uncommon French at frequency #88,928 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \na.ziːʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ascète juif, naziréen.".
nazir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nazir, spelled N-A-Z-I-R.
Definition
- 1Ascète juif, naziréen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nazir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La période de vœu accomplie, le nazir doit apporter une brebis et un bélier en offrande au Temple, se raser le crâne et brûler ses cheveux sur l'autel ; il peut alors boire du vin et retourner à la vie normale.
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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