nea
\ˈne.a\
The verdict
“nea” is uncommon French (frequency #79,557 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,557
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Négatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nea · nea · French
nea · rank #79,557 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,557
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH navigatrice
Nearest frequency peer: navigatrice (-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 « nea »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Méphistophé…
Méphistophélès
20,449 corpus weight
- nageuses
nageuses
20,448 corpus weight
- nak
nak
20,447 corpus weight
- nappage
nappage
20,446 corpus weight
- navigatrice
navigatrice
20,445 corpus weight
- nea
nea
20,444 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nea » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nea |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈne.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #79,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nea » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nea is uncommon French at frequency #79,557 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈne.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Négatif.".
nea doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nea, spelled N-E-A.
Definition
- 1Négatif.
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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