nématodes
\ne.ma.tɔd\
The verdict
“nématodes” is uncommon French (frequency #70,892 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,892
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de nématode.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nematodes · nématodes · French
nématodes · rank #70,892 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,892
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nécessiteront
Nearest frequency peer: nécessiteront (-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 « nématodes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nouvion
Nouvion
29,114 corpus weight
- Nyssen
Nyssen
29,112 corpus weight
- nécessitero…
nécessiteront
29,110 corpus weight
- nématodes
nématodes
29,109 corpus weight
- obscurantis…
obscurantiste
29,108 corpus weight
- offrirent
offrirent
29,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nématodes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nématodes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ne.ma.tɔd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nématodes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nématodes is uncommon French at frequency #70,892 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ne.ma.tɔd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de nématode.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nématodes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nématodes, spelled N-É-M-A-T-O-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de nématode.
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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