Nicole

/\ni.kɔl\/ name

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,718

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

Nicole is aFrenchname. It means: Commune française, située dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne. Pronounced \ni.kɔl\. It ranks #6,718 in French word frequency. Often confused with Nikola and Nicolet.

Key facts for Nicole
PropertyValue
HeadwordNicole
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\ni.kɔl\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,718
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Nicole in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Nicole is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ni.kɔl\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,718 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Commune française, située dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Nicole, with forms such as "incole", "nciole", and "niccole". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Nikola", "Nicolet", "Nicosie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Nicole, spelled N-I-C-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: incole,nciole,niccole,nicloe,nicoel,nicolle,niocle,nnicole

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Nicole

Misspelling Variants of "Nicole"

incole6nciole6niccole7nicloe6nicoel6nicolle7niocle6nnicole7
Misspelling Variants of "Nicole"

Frequency rank: #6,718 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Nicole"?
"Nicole" is spelled N-I-C-O-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ni.kɔl\.
What does "Nicole" mean?
As a name, "Nicole" means: Commune française, située dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.
What words are commonly confused with "Nicole"?
"Nicole" is commonly confused with "Nikola", "Nicolet", "Nicosie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Nicole"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Nicole" is \ni.kɔl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Nicole" come from?
"Nicole" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.