Nesle
\nɛl\
The verdict
“Nesle” is uncommon French (frequency #59,480 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,480
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Somme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nesle · Nesle · French
Nesle · rank #59,480 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,480
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH naîtront
Nearest frequency peer: naîtront (-2 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 « Nesle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- méandre
méandre
40,528 corpus weight
- médiathèques
médiathèques
40,527 corpus weight
- Nadja
Nadja
40,525 corpus weight
- naîtront
naîtront
40,523 corpus weight
- Nesle
Nesle
40,521 corpus weight
- nonante
nonante
40,519 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Nesle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nesle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \nɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Nesle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Nesle is uncommon French at frequency #59,480 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \nɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Somme.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Nesle, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Nesle, spelled N-E-S-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Somme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Nesle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La start-up Innovafeed s’apprête à inaugurer, à Nesle dans la Somme, la plus grande usine d’insectes du monde. Un site qui doit permettre à la start-up de s’imposer comme le leader de la protéine d’insectes pour l’alimentation animale.
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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