nbre
\nɔ̃bʁ\
The verdict
“nbre” is uncommon French (frequency #57,460 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,460
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de nombre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nbre · nbre · French
nbre · rank #57,460 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,460
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nationalement
Nearest frequency peer: nationalement (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « nbre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nacré
nacré
42,544 corpus weight
- Nando
Nando
42,543 corpus weight
- nationaleme…
nationalement
42,542 corpus weight
- nbre
nbre
42,541 corpus weight
- nolife
nolife
42,539 corpus weight
- nonchalant
nonchalant
42,538 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nbre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nbre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nbre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nbre is uncommon French at frequency #57,460 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɔ̃bʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abréviation de nombre.".
nbre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is nbre, spelled N-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de nombre.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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