Nt
\ⁿt\
The verdict
“Nt” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,353) as a character. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,353
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dix-neuvième lettre de l’alphabet guarani (majuscule).
Corpus desk
Index FR-nt · Nt · French
Nt · rank #22,353 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,353
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noyés
Nearest frequency peer: noyés (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Nt”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Norris
Norris
77,651 corpus weight
- norvégienne
norvégienne
77,650 corpus weight
- noyés
noyés
77,649 corpus weight
- Nt
Nt
77,648 corpus weight
- Nuremberg
Nuremberg
77,647 corpus weight
- nébuleuse
nébuleuse
77,646 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Nt” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | \ⁿt\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #22,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nt” sits in French frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Nt is neighbouring look-alikes ("nu", "ny", …), not just typos; it is acharacter pronounced \ⁿt\. Frequency #22,353 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Dix-neuvième lettre de l’alphabet guarani (majuscule).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Nt, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nu", "ny", "nul", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Nt, spelled N-T.
Definition
- 1Dix-neuvième lettre de l’alphabet guarani (majuscule).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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- Usage frequency rank #22,353 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.