net
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,003
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
net is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est uni, poli, sans tache ou sans souillure. Pronounced \nɛt\. It ranks #2,003 in French word frequency. Often confused with ni and no.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | net |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \nɛt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for net is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,003 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for net in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ni", "no", "nu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 net, spelled N-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est uni, poli, sans tache ou sans souillure.
- 2Qui est débarrassé, qui a été vidé.
- 3Qui est pur, sans mélange, qui n’est altéré par aucun élément étranger.
- 4Qui est sans restriction ; dont on a déduit tout élément étranger en parlant de biens, de revenus ou de quantités.
- 5Qui est uni, distinct, qui a un contour précis, qui n’est pas confus ou brouillé.
- 6Qui est précis, clair, pur en parlant des opérations et des productions de l’esprit.
- 7Franche, distincte et égale, en parlant d’une voix, d’un son.
- 8Dont le débit détache et fait entendre tous les mots, toutes les syllabes, en parlant d’un discours, d’une diction.
- 9Qui est sans difficulté, sans embarras, sans ambiguïté.
- 10Qui est franc, sans supercherie, qui ne donne lieu à aucun doute, à aucun soupçon, en parlant des personnes et des choses.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #2,003 in French
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