netbook

/\nɛt.buk\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

netbook is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced \nɛt.buk\.

Key facts for netbook
PropertyValue
Headwordnetbook
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nɛt.buk\
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

netbook is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for netbook is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɛt.buk\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for netbook 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 netbook, spelled N-E-T-B-O-O-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "netbook"?
"netbook" is spelled N-E-T-B-O-O-K. The IPA pronunciation is \nɛt.buk\.
What does "netbook" mean?
As a noun, "netbook" means: 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.
How do you pronounce "netbook"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "netbook" is \nɛt.buk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "netbook" 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.