Nevada

/\ne.va.da\/ name

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#20,211

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

Nevada is aFrenchname. It means: Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal NV), bordé par l’Oregon au nord-ouest, l’Idaho au nord-est, l’Utah à l’est, l’Arizona au sud-est, et la Californie au sud-ouest, et don... Pronounced \ne.va.da\. Often confused with nada.

Key facts for Nevada
PropertyValue
HeadwordNevada
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\ne.va.da\
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,211
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Nevada is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ne.va.da\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,211 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal NV), bordé par l’Oregon au nord-ouest, l’Idaho au nord-est, l’Utah à l’est, l’Arizona au sud-est, et la Californie au sud-ouest, et don...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Nevada, with forms such as "envada", "neavda", and "nevaad". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "nada", 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 Nevada, spelled N-E-V-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal NV), bordé par l’Oregon au nord-ouest, l’Idaho au nord-est, l’Utah à l’est, l’Arizona au sud-est, et la Californie au sud-ouest, et dont la capitale est Carson City.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: envada,neavda,nevaad,nevadda,nevdaa,nevvada,nnevada,nveada

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Nevada

Misspelling Variants of "Nevada"

envada6neavda6nevaad6nevadda7nevdaa6nevvada7nnevada7nveada6
Misspelling Variants of "Nevada"

Frequency rank: #20,211 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Nevada"?
"Nevada" is spelled N-E-V-A-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ne.va.da\.
What does "Nevada" mean?
As a name, "Nevada" means: Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal NV), bordé par l’Oregon au nord-ouest, l’Idaho au nord-est, l’Utah à l’est, l’Arizona au sud-est, et la Californie au sud-ouest, et don...
What words are commonly confused with "Nevada"?
"Nevada" is commonly confused with "nada". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Nevada"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Nevada" is \ne.va.da\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Nevada" come from?
"Nevada" 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.