nodal
\nɔ.dal\
The verdict
“nodal” is uncommon French (frequency #98,300 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,300
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au nœud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nodal · nodal · French
nodal · rank #98,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,300
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH notifiant
Nearest frequency peer: notifiant (+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 « nodal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nimbe
nimbe
1,705 corpus weight
- nio
nio
1,704 corpus weight
- nions
nions
1,703 corpus weight
- nodal
nodal
1,701 corpus weight
- notifiant
notifiant
1,700 corpus weight
- NTFS
NTFS
1,698 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nodal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nodal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɔ.dal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nodal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nodal is uncommon French at frequency #98,300 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \nɔ.dal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
nodal doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is nodal, spelled N-O-D-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au nœud.
- 2Qui représente l’élément principal d’un sujet, le point central.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nodal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1° Cigarettes en tuyaux de paille. Soit un beau tuyau de paille de blé ; on le coupe transversalement à angle droit à deux ou trois centimètres de l'articulation nodale du côté de son moindre diamètre […].
Analyse nodale des circuits.
This word in other languages
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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