sport nautique
\spɔʁt nɔ.tik\
The verdict
“sport nautique” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sport qui se pratique dans ou sur l’eau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sport nautique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɔʁt nɔ.tik\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sport nautique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sport nautique is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \spɔʁt nɔ.tik\. 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: "Sport qui se pratique dans ou sur l’eau.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sport nautique in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 sport nautique, spelled S-P-O-R-T- -N-A-U-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Sport qui se pratique dans ou sur l’eau.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sport nautique”
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- The one correct French spelling is S-P-O-R-T- -N-A-U-T-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.