New Hampshire
The verdict
“New Hampshire” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: État de Nouvelle-Angleterre, aux États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal NH), bordé par le Canada (Québec) au nord, le Maine à l’est, l’océan Atlantique Nord au sud-est, le Massachusetts au sud, et le V...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | New Hampshire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \nju ɑ̃p.ʃiʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “New Hampshire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for New Hampshire is 13 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nju ɑ̃p.ʃiʁ\. 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: "État de Nouvelle-Angleterre, aux États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal NH), bordé par le Canada (Québec) au nord, le Maine à l’est, l’océan Atlantique Nord au sud-est, le Massachusetts au sud, et le V...".
No misspelling variants are generated for New Hampshire in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 New Hampshire, spelled N-E-W- -H-A-M-P-S-H-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1État de Nouvelle-Angleterre, aux États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal NH), bordé par le Canada (Québec) au nord, le Maine à l’est, l’océan Atlantique Nord au sud-est, le Massachusetts au sud, et le Vermont à l’ouest, et dont la capitale est Concord.
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Using “New Hampshire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is N-E-W- -H-A-M-P-S-H-I-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \nju ɑ̃p.ʃiʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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