nervure
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#66,154
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
nervure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble des vaisseaux conducteurs de la sève formant un réseau à la surface d'une feuille, d'un sépale ou d'un pétale. Pronounced \nɛʁ.vyʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nervure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɛʁ.vyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nervure is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɛʁ.vyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #66,154 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for nervure in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is nervure, spelled N-E-R-V-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des vaisseaux conducteurs de la sève formant un réseau à la surface d'une feuille, d'un sépale ou d'un pétale.
- 2Sorte de structure qui renforce la membrane de l'aile des insectes.
- 3Réunion des parties saillantes qui sont formées sur le dos d’un livre par les nerfs ou cordelettes qui servent à relier.
- 4Moulure saillante placée sur les arêtes d’une voûte, sur les côtés des cannelures, sur les arêtes des volutes, sur les angles des pierres, etc.
- 5Armature interne rigidifiant la voilure ou le fuselage tout en structurant la forme aérodynamique de l’aile.
- 6Pliures ou ondulation sur une tôle permettant de la rigidifier en augmentant son moment quadratique.
- 7Marques sinueuses de certaines pierres.
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Frequency rank: #66,154 in French
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