newspaper
[ˈnjuːz.ˌpeɪ.pə]
The verdict
“newspaper” is uncommon French (frequency #95,106 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,106
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Journal. (Feuille quotidienne ou périodique donnant les nouvelles et les accompagnant ou non d’articles raisonnés sur la politique, les lettres, les sciences, les arts, etc.)
Corpus desk
Index FR-newspaper · newspaper · French
newspaper · rank #95,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,106
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH niark
Nearest frequency peer: niark (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « newspaper »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nauséeuse
nauséeuse
4,900 corpus weight
- Neuvic
Neuvic
4,897 corpus weight
- newspaper
newspaper
4,895 corpus weight
- niark
niark
4,894 corpus weight
- nigériennes
nigériennes
4,892 corpus weight
- ninette
ninette
4,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « newspaper » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | newspaper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnjuːz.ˌpeɪ.pə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « newspaper » en français
Rare enough to double-check
newspaper is uncommon French at frequency #95,106 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈnjuːz.ˌpeɪ.pə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Journal. (Feuille quotidienne ou périodique donnant les nouvelles et les accompagnant ou non d’articles raisonnés sur la politique, les lettres, les sciences, les arts, etc.)".
newspaper has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is newspaper, spelled N-E-W-S-P-A-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Journal. (Feuille quotidienne ou périodique donnant les nouvelles et les accompagnant ou non d’articles raisonnés sur la politique, les lettres, les sciences, les arts, etc.)
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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