Noël
[nɔ.εl]
The verdict
“Noël” is uncommon German (frequency #98,865 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,865
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Weihnachten, Weihnachtsfest
Corpus desk
Index DE-noel · Noël · German
Noël · rank #98,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,865
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH norsk
Nearest frequency peer: norsk (-3 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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Noël“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Nideggen
Nideggen
1,142 corpus weight
- Normalschan…
Normalschanze
1,140 corpus weight
- norsk
norsk
1,139 corpus weight
- Noël
Noël
1,136 corpus weight
- nuschelt
nuschelt
1,133 corpus weight
- nvm
nvm
1,132 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Noël“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Noël |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [nɔ.εl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Noël“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Noël is uncommon German at frequency #98,865 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [nɔ.εl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Weihnachten, Weihnachtsfest".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Noël, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Noël, spelled N-O-Ë-L.
Definition
- 1Weihnachten, Weihnachtsfest
This word in other languages
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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