nuage
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,634
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
nuage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Amas de gouttelettes d’eau maintenues en suspension dans l’atmosphère et qui se résolvent ordinairement en pluie. Pronounced \ny.aʒ\. It ranks #6,634 in French word frequency. Often confused with nue and nuée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nuage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ny.aʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nuage is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ny.aʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,634 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for nuage, with forms such as "nauge", "nnuage", and "nuaeg". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "nue", "nuée", "nude", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 nuage, spelled N-U-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Amas de gouttelettes d’eau maintenues en suspension dans l’atmosphère et qui se résolvent ordinairement en pluie.
- 2Tout ce qui empêche de décrire distinctement la matière.
- 3Tout ce qui obscurcit l’esprit, par le chagrin, la tristesse, la mauvaise humeur.
- 4Les soupçons qui s’élèvent sur la conduite de quelqu’un, des incertitudes répandues sur sa réputation, sur son amitié, d’un commencement ou d’un reste de brouillerie.
- 5Risque ou danger qui s’annonce.
- 6Phénomène qui assombrit une réalité, nuit à son développement ou à son image.
- 7Ensemble des matériels et des logiciels accessibles par l’internet, qu’un prestataire met à la disposition de ses clients sous la forme de services en ligne.
- 8Meuble représentant le phénomène météorologique du même nom dans les armoiries. Il se représente sous la forme d'un agglomérat cotonneux pouvant être mouvant des bords de l’écu (ce qui doit être blasonné). À rapprocher de nuée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nauge,nnuage,nuaeg,nuagge,nugae,unage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nuage
Misspelling Variants of "nuage"
Frequency rank: #6,634 in French
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