nursery
\nœʁ.sə.ʁi\
The verdict
“nursery” is uncommon French (frequency #70,068 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,068
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce réservée aux enfants
Corpus desk
Index FR-nursery · nursery · French
nursery · rank #70,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,068
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH novation
Nearest frequency peer: novation (-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 « nursery »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- northwest
northwest
29,936 corpus weight
- notebook
notebook
29,935 corpus weight
- novation
novation
29,934 corpus weight
- nursery
nursery
29,933 corpus weight
- népalaise
népalaise
29,932 corpus weight
- obstruée
obstruée
29,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nursery » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nursery |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nœʁ.sə.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nursery » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nursery is uncommon French at frequency #70,068 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nœʁ.sə.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pièce réservée aux enfants".
No generated misspelling entries exist for nursery in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 nursery, spelled N-U-R-S-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Pièce réservée aux enfants
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nursery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il embrassait sa femme, s’enfermait dans son cabinet, la retrouvait pour les repas. Elle attendait un enfant et il en était heureux. Il eut une fille et il passa trois ou quatre fois par jour dans la nursery.
Moi qui n'avais eu de l'enfance que la cruauté, que faisais-je donc là, dans cette nursery amusante, avec ses jouets et ses livres en désordre par terre, sa tapisserie bleue et sa grande fenêtre encadrant un matin de printemps gris ?
Synonyms
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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