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Norse

/noɹs/adjective, noun

Norse is spelled N-O-R-S-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Norse means “Of or relating to the people, language and culture of Norway” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Norse?

Letters5: N-O-R-S-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.7 times per million words; the 21,516th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is Norse?

Norse appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce Norse?

  • US /noɹs/
  • US [no̞ɹs]
  • UK /nɔːs/

Norse has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-Norse.ogg, En-uk-Norse.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with Norse?

5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as Norse from its last stressed vowel (/oɹs/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of Norse

  • more Norse comparative
  • most Norse superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Norse mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to the people, language and culture of Norway.

  2. 2

    Of or relating to the people, language and culture of Scandinavia.

  3. 3

    Of or relating to the North Germanic group of languages.

noun

  1. 1

    The collective Scandinavian (or specifically Norwegian) people.

  2. 2

    Speakers of any of the North Germanic languages.

  3. 3

    USdatedrareA size of type between Saxon and excelsior, 2+¹⁄₂-point type.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Norse in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchnorrois (of Scandinavia/Norway), nordique (of North Germanic languages), les Nordiques (Scandinavian/Norwegian people), microscopique (2½-point type)
Portuguesenórdico (of Scandinavia/Norway)
Germanaltnordisch (of North Germanic languages), Microscopique (2½-point type)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Norse come from?

Partly from Dutch Noorsch (now Noors (“Norwegian”)), from noordsch (“northern; nordic”); and partly from Danish norsk (“Norwegian”). Both equivalent to north + -ish. Doublet of Norsk.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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