nécessaire
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#881
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
nécessaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui est utile et suffisant, qui permet de réaliser une chose. Le degré en-dessous d’indispensable. Pronounced \ne.se.sɛʁ\. It ranks #881 in French word frequency. Often confused with nécessité and nécessaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nécessaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ne.se.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nécessaire is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ne.se.sɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #881 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for nécessaire, with forms such as "ncéessaire", "necessaire", and "nnécessaire". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "nécessité", "nécessaires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 nécessaire, spelled N-É-C-E-S-S-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui est utile et suffisant, qui permet de réaliser une chose. Le degré en-dessous d’indispensable.
- 2Un ensemble d’outils pour une tâche.
- 3Tout ce qui est essentiel pour les besoins de la vie, par opposition au superflu.
- 4Sac, bagage contenant les objets nécessaires pour réaliser une chose.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ncéessaire,necessaire,nnécessaire,néccessaire,nécesaire,nécesasire,nécessaier,nécessairre,nécessarie,nécessiare,nécsesaire,néecssaire,éncessaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "nécessaire"
Frequency rank: #881 in French
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