seconde nature
The verdict
“seconde nature” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: ou Caractère ou qualité qui modifie la nature première d'un être.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | seconde nature |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.ɡɔ̃d na.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “seconde nature” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for seconde nature is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sə.ɡɔ̃d na.tyʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ou Caractère ou qualité qui modifie la nature première d'un être.".
No misspelling variants are generated for seconde nature in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 seconde nature, spelled S-E-C-O-N-D-E- -N-A-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ou Caractère ou qualité qui modifie la nature première d'un être.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-E-C-O-N-D-E- -N-A-T-U-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sə.ɡɔ̃d na.tyʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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