nouvelles

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/[…]/ noun

The verdict

“nouvelles” is uncommon German (frequency #71,667 among 1,954 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#71,667
frequency rank, German
1,954
“N” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nachrichten

Corpus desk

Index DE-nouvelles · nouvelles · German

nouvelles · rank #71,667 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #71,667
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,954
  • PHOTO-FINISH Notunterkunft

Nearest frequency peer: Notunterkunft (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „nouvelles“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „nouvelles“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for nouvelles
PropertyValue
Headwordnouvelles
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters9
Frequency rank#71,667
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „nouvelles“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).nouvellesfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Notunterkunft“ (#71,666), „NRA“ (#71,668), „Notrufnummer“ (#71,665). Unter 1,954 „N“-Lemmata liegt „nouvelles“ bei #71,667. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

nouvelles is uncommon German at frequency #71,667 among 1,954 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nachrichten".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nouvelles, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is nouvelles, spelled N-O-U-V-E-L-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nachrichten

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nouvelles"?
"nouvelles" is spelled N-O-U-V-E-L-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "nouvelles" mean?
As a noun, "nouvelles" means: Nachrichten
How do you pronounce "nouvelles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nouvelles" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nouvelles" come from?
"nouvelles" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nouvelles", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list