NPD

noun

The verdict

“NPD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,090) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#11,090
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parti politique fédéral de centre-gauche.

Corpus desk

Index FR-npd · NPD · French

NPD · rank #11,090 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,090
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH niche

Nearest frequency peer: niche (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « NPD »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « NPD » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

NPD vs nu
0% similar
NPD vs ny
0% similar
NPD vs NS
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for NPD
PropertyValue
HeadwordNPD
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#11,090
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « NPD »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).NPDse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « niche » (#11,089), « palette » (#11,091), « musicaux » (#11,088). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « NPD » est au #11,090. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for NPD is neighbouring look-alikes ("nu", "ny", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #11,090 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Parti politique fédéral de centre-gauche.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for NPD in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nu", "ny", "NS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is NPD, spelled N-P-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Parti politique fédéral de centre-gauche.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how NPD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le chef du Nouveau Parti démocratique (NPD) estime que la situation est si grave à travers le pays que les députés doivent se réunir de façon virtuelle une semaine avant la date prévue du retour du Parlement.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "NPD"?
"NPD" is spelled N-P-D.
What does "NPD" mean?
As a noun, "NPD" means: Parti politique fédéral de centre-gauche.
What words are commonly confused with "NPD"?
"NPD" is commonly confused with "nu", "ny", "NS". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "NPD" come from?
"NPD" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "NPD", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list