netbook
\nɛt.buk\
The verdict
“netbook” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ordinateur portable de très petite taille, utilisé principalement pour un usage nomade d’Internet mais devenant également un mode d’accès bon marché à la micro-informatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-netbook · netbook · French
netbook · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | netbook |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɛt.buk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « netbook » en français
Rare enough to double-check
netbook is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɛt.buk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ordinateur portable de très petite taille, utilisé principalement pour un usage nomade d’Internet mais devenant également un mode d’accès bon marché à la micro-informatique.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for netbook in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is netbook, spelled N-E-T-B-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1Ordinateur portable de très petite taille, utilisé principalement pour un usage nomade d’Internet mais devenant également un mode d’accès bon marché à la micro-informatique.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.