nonevsnotreWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: none is a noun, notre is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“none” is a noun and “notre” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#42,028
“none” frequency rank
#22,838
“notre” frequency rank
64866
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature none notre
Definition Plural des Substantivs nona unser, unsere

Letter map: none vs notre

Shared letters muted; letters that set none and notre apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
none
5 ch
notre

Part-of-speech tell for none / notre

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: none is anoun and notreanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64866, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

none is recorded at frequency rank #42,028, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. notre is at rank #22,838, tagged as anadj, pronounced [nɔtʁ].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 64866, this pair ranks #626,532 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of none vs notre

Shared letters: eno. Private to "none": -. Private to "notre": rt.

"none" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "notre" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • nonennoe · onne
  • notrennotre · norte · noter · notrre · nottre · ntore · ontre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "none" and "notre" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "none" is a noun and "notre" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "none" vs "notre" - which ranks higher?
"notre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,838 in our German list, against #42,028 for "none". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "none" and "notre". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "none" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "notre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #626,532 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "none" and "notre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "none vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #626,532 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list