nouveau
/nuːˈvoʊ/adjective, noun
nouveau is spelled N-O-U-V-E-A-U. The wrong spelling people search most is noveau: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Nouveau is an adjective meaning “New, fashionable”.
How many letters and syllables are in nouveau?
| Letters | 7: N-O-U-V-E-A-U |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 26,420th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, noveau, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell nouveau?
Nouveau is spelled N-O-U-V-E-A-U. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for nouveau in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is nouveau?
Nouveau appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th 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 nouveau?
- UK /nuːˈvəʊ/
- US /nuːˈvoʊ/
Nouveau has 2 syllables (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).
What rhymes with nouveau?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as nouveau from its last stressed vowel (/oʊ/):
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 nouveau
- nouveaus plural
- nouveaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nouveau mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
New, fashionable.
noun
- 1
A wine released in the same year that the grapes were harvested to make it.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does nouveau come from?
Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau. Recognized as English in 1828. Doublet of novel.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).