Néandertalien

/\ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.ta.ljɛ̃\/ name

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#99,432

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Néandertalien is aFrenchname. It means: Espèce humaine cousine de l'homme contemporain (Homo sapiens) et disparue il y a apparemment trente-mille ans environ. Son appellation binominale d'espèce est aujourd'hui Homo neanderthalensis, aup... Pronounced \ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.ta.ljɛ̃\.

Key facts for Néandertalien
PropertyValue
HeadwordNéandertalien
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.ta.ljɛ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#99,432
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Néandertalien in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Néandertalien is 13 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.ta.ljɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #99,432 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for Néandertalien in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Néandertalien, spelled N-É-A-N-D-E-R-T-A-L-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce humaine cousine de l'homme contemporain (Homo sapiens) et disparue il y a apparemment trente-mille ans environ. Son appellation binominale d'espèce est aujourd'hui Homo neanderthalensis, auparavant Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.
  2. 2
    Individu appartenant à cette espèce.

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Frequency rank: #99,432 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Néandertalien"?
"Néandertalien" is spelled N-É-A-N-D-E-R-T-A-L-I-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.ta.ljɛ̃\.
What does "Néandertalien" mean?
As a name, "Néandertalien" means: Espèce humaine cousine de l'homme contemporain (Homo sapiens) et disparue il y a apparemment trente-mille ans environ. Son appellation binominale d'espèce est aujourd'hui Homo neanderthalensis, aup...
How do you pronounce "Néandertalien"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Néandertalien" is \ne.ɑ̃.dɛʁ.ta.ljɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.