nette

/\nɛt\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,999

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

nette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de canards plongeurs de la famille des anatidés. Pronounced \nɛt\. It ranks #5,999 in French word frequency. Often confused with Note and next.

Key facts for nette
PropertyValue
Headwordnette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nɛt\
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,999
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for nette is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,999 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce de canards plongeurs de la famille des anatidés.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for nette, with forms such as "entte", "nete", and "netet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "Note", "next", "neue", 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 nette, spelled N-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce de canards plongeurs de la famille des anatidés.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: entte,nete,netet,nnette,ntete

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nette

Misspelling Variants of "nette"

entte5nete4netet5nnette6ntete5
Misspelling Variants of "nette"

Frequency rank: #5,999 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nette"?
"nette" is spelled N-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \nɛt\.
What does "nette" mean?
As a noun, "nette" means: Espèce de canards plongeurs de la famille des anatidés.
What words are commonly confused with "nette"?
"nette" is commonly confused with "Note", "next", "neue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "nette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nette" is \nɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nette" come from?
"nette" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.