nymphéas
\nɛ̃.fe.a\
The verdict
“nymphéas” is uncommon French (frequency #80,462 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,462
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de nymphéa.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nympheas · nymphéas · French
nymphéas · rank #80,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,462
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH novare
Nearest frequency peer: novare (-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 « nymphéas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- notch
notch
19,541 corpus weight
- novare
novare
19,540 corpus weight
- nymphéas
nymphéas
19,539 corpus weight
- néoclassiqu…
néoclassiques
19,538 corpus weight
- névralgie
névralgie
19,537 corpus weight
- obligeaient
obligeaient
19,536 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nymphéas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nymphéas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɛ̃.fe.a\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nymphéas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nymphéas is uncommon French at frequency #80,462 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɛ̃.fe.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de nymphéa.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nymphéas, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 nymphéas, spelled N-Y-M-P-H-É-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de nymphéa.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nymphéas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aux pieds des jujubiers déployés en arceaux, Trois sages méditaient, assis dans les roseaux ; Des larges nymphéas contemplant les calices Ils goûtaient, absorbés, de muettes délices.
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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