Neckar
The verdict
“Neckar” is uncommon French (frequency #82,271 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,271
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affluent du Rhin qui prend sa source dans la Forêt-Noire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-neckar · Neckar · French
Neckar · rank #82,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,271
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH naturopathie
Nearest frequency peer: naturopathie (-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 « Neckar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- narcotrafic
narcotrafic
17,735 corpus weight
- narcotrafiq…
narcotrafiquants
17,734 corpus weight
- naturopathie
naturopathie
17,731 corpus weight
- Neckar
Neckar
17,730 corpus weight
- neiman
neiman
17,729 corpus weight
- nerva
nerva
17,728 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Neckar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Neckar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Neckar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Neckar is uncommon French at frequency #82,271 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Affluent du Rhin qui prend sa source dans la Forêt-Noire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Neckar in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Neckar, spelled N-E-C-K-A-R.
Definition
- 1Affluent du Rhin qui prend sa source dans la Forêt-Noire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Neckar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
JAGST ou JAXT, (Géog.) riviere de Franconie, qui prend sa source dans le comté d’Œttingen, & qui se jette dans le Neckar, près de Wimpfen.
Avec un ordre de mission du gouvernement militaire, des étudiants français pouvaient obtenir une sorte de bourse, soixante repas par mois à prendre à la Maison de France, confortable propriété d’où l’on dominait la vallée du Neckar et de jeunes Allemands musclés qui y faisaient de l’aviron comme, à Cambridge ou Oxford, les Anglais.
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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