Neruda

name

The verdict

“Neruda” is uncommon French (frequency #58,785 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,785
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patronyme tchèque.

Corpus desk

Index FR-neruda · Neruda · French

Neruda · rank #58,785 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,785
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH neto

Nearest frequency peer: neto (+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 « Neruda »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Neruda » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Neruda
PropertyValue
HeadwordNeruda
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#58,785
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Neruda » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Nerudatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « neto » (#58,786), « naturaliser » (#58,782), « Norwegian » (#58,788). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « Neruda » est au #58,785. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Neruda is uncommon French at frequency #58,785 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Neruda doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. The correct French form is Neruda, spelled N-E-R-U-D-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Patronyme tchèque.
  2. 2
    Jan Neruda.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Neruda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Neruda zlidšťoval a zčešťoval biblické motivy.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Neruda"?
"Neruda" is spelled N-E-R-U-D-A.
What does "Neruda" mean?
As a proper noun, "Neruda" means: Patronyme tchèque.
What language does "Neruda" come from?
"Neruda" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Neruda", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list