nymphe
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,721
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
nymphe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Divinité féminine grecque d’un rang inférieur qui hante les fleuves, les sources, les bois, les montagnes, les prairies, les mers, etc., et personnifie les forces vives de la nature. Pronounced \nɛ̃f\. Often confused with nymphes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nymphe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɛ̃f\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for nymphe is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɛ̃f\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,721 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for nymphe, with forms such as "nmyphe", "nnymphe", and "nymhpe". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "nymphes", 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 nymphe, spelled N-Y-M-P-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Divinité féminine grecque d’un rang inférieur qui hante les fleuves, les sources, les bois, les montagnes, les prairies, les mers, etc., et personnifie les forces vives de la nature.
- 2Belle jeune fille ou jeune femme.
- 3Jeune fille ou jeune femme attachée à un lieu, à un rôle, à une fonction.
- 4Stade de métamorphose d’un insecte, intermédiaire entre l’état de larve et celui d’imago.
- 5La pupe est formée par la dernière exuvie larvaire rétractée qui constitue un puparium chitinisé, dur et résistant. La pupe enferme la nymphe et ne permet pas de distinguer les parties de l’imago. — (P. Pesson & Jean Louveaux, Pollinisation et productions végétales, Éditions Quae, 1984, note bas de page 52)
- 6Larve âgée du puceron dont les ébauches des ailes sont déjà développées.
- 7(au pluriel) Petites lèvres, replis membraneux de chaque côté de l’orifice vaginal sous les grandes lèvres de la vulve.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nmyphe,nnymphe,nymhpe,nymmphe,nympeh,nymphhe,nympphe,nypmhe,nyymphe,ynmphe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nymphe
Misspelling Variants of "nymphe"
Frequency rank: #30,721 in French
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