nébulosité
\ne.by.lo.zi.te\
The verdict
“nébulosité” is uncommon French (frequency #58,796 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,796
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obscurité, nuages légers ^([1]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-nebulosite · nébulosité · French
nébulosité · rank #58,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,796
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Néandertal
Nearest frequency peer: Néandertal (-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 « nébulosité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nuno
nuno
41,208 corpus weight
- nympho
nympho
41,207 corpus weight
- Néandertal
Néandertal
41,206 corpus weight
- nébulosité
nébulosité
41,205 corpus weight
- négociait
négociait
41,204 corpus weight
- néolibéral
néolibéral
41,203 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nébulosité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nébulosité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ne.by.lo.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nébulosité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nébulosité is uncommon French at frequency #58,796 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ne.by.lo.zi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for nébulosité in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 nébulosité, spelled N-É-B-U-L-O-S-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Obscurité, nuages légers ^([1]).
- 2opacité, complexité,
- 3Halo lumineux qui entoure un astre.
- 4Ensemble de nuages visibles dans le ciel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nébulosité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heidegger avait parlé de la « nébulosité » de la vie en lieu et place du principe de perception claire et distincte de l’ego cogito
Ma chambre aussi profonde que déserte s’éclairait silencieusement des nébulosités de la lune.
This word in other languages
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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