nervure

/\nɛʁ.vyʁ\/ noun

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\.

Key facts for nervure
PropertyValue
Headwordnervure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nɛʁ.vyʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#66,154
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of nervure in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Ensemble des vaisseaux conducteurs de la sève formant un réseau à la surface d'une feuille, d'un sépale ou d'un pétale.
  2. 2
    Sorte de structure qui renforce la membrane de l'aile des insectes.
  3. 3
    Réunion des parties saillantes qui sont formées sur le dos d’un livre par les nerfs ou cordelettes qui servent à relier.
  4. 4
    Moulure saillante placée sur les arêtes d’une voûte, sur les côtés des cannelures, sur les arêtes des volutes, sur les angles des pierres, etc.
  5. 5
    Armature interne rigidifiant la voilure ou le fuselage tout en structurant la forme aérodynamique de l’aile.
  6. 6
    Pliures ou ondulation sur une tôle permettant de la rigidifier en augmentant son moment quadratique.
  7. 7
    Marques sinueuses de certaines pierres.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #66,154 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nervure"?
"nervure" is spelled N-E-R-V-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \nɛʁ.vyʁ\.
What does "nervure" mean?
As a noun, "nervure" means: Ensemble des vaisseaux conducteurs de la sève formant un réseau à la surface d'une feuille, d'un sépale ou d'un pétale.
How do you pronounce "nervure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nervure" is \nɛʁ.vyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nervure" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.