Nérac
\ne.ʁak\
The verdict
“Nérac” is uncommon French (frequency #64,654 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,654
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nerac · Nérac · French
Nérac · rank #64,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,654
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH négligents
Nearest frequency peer: négligents (-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 « Nérac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nourrices
nourrices
35,350 corpus weight
- nourrissez
nourrissez
35,349 corpus weight
- négligents
négligents
35,348 corpus weight
- Nérac
Nérac
35,347 corpus weight
- obscurcir
obscurcir
35,346 corpus weight
- octroient
octroient
35,345 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Nérac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nérac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ne.ʁak\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Nérac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Nérac is uncommon French at frequency #64,654 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ne.ʁak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Nérac in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Nérac, spelled N-É-R-A-C.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Nérac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des secours, pompiers et Samu, sont arrivés de toute la région, principalement de Nérac et de Casteljaloux, et une cellule d’assistance psychologique a été installée au centre de secours de Houeillès pour rassurer ceux du second minibus.
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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