nuque
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,626
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
nuque is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie dorsale du cou. Pronounced \nyk\. Often confused with nurse and nue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nuque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nyk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nuque is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nyk\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,626 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 nuque, with forms such as "nnuque", "nquue", and "nuqeu". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "nurse", "nue", "noue", 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 nuque, spelled N-U-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie dorsale du cou.
- 2Partie de la chevelure à l’arrière du cou.
- 3Partie arrière de la tourelle d’un char.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nnuque,nquue,nuqeu,nuqque,nuuqe,unque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nuque
Misspelling Variants of "nuque"
Frequency rank: #11,626 in French
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