noa

\no.a\

/\no.a\/ noun

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The verdict

“noa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,927) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#41,927
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’un cépage hybride américain franc de pied dont l’usage commercial est interdit en France depuis 1935. C'est un raisin blanc au goût foxé dont les petits grains se détachent de la rafle à matu...

Corpus desk

Index FR-noa · noa · French

noa · rank #41,927 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,927
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH nommera

Nearest frequency peer: nommera (+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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « noa »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « noa » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

noa vs nu
33% similar
noa vs ny
33% similar
noa vs NS
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for noa
PropertyValue
Headwordnoa
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\no.a\
Letters3
Frequency rank#41,927
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « noa »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.noase place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « nommera » (#41,928), « neurone » (#41,925), « nourries » (#41,929). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « noa » est au #41,927. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for noa is neighbouring look-alikes ("nu", "ny", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \no.a\. Frequency #41,927 among 1,563 “N” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

No generated misspelling entries exist for noa in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nu", "ny", "NS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is noa, spelled N-O-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom d’un cépage hybride américain franc de pied dont l’usage commercial est interdit en France depuis 1935. C'est un raisin blanc au goût foxé dont les petits grains se détachent de la rafle à maturité. Des particuliers en possèdent dans leur jardin.
  2. 2
    Cep de ce cépage.
  3. 3
    Vin de ce cépage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how noa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le banquet qui clôtura ces dix-huit jours d’une orgie que les ethnographes appelleraient rituelle, dura quarante-huit heures. Il y fut bu quatre hectolitres d’un vin blanc de Noa, bon marché et âcre, mais riche en alcaloïdes qui excitent au plus haut point les nerfs moteurs, et près d’un hectolitre de marc.

Synonyms

vin de troisvin qui rend aveuglevin qui rend fou

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "noa"?
"noa" is spelled N-O-A. The IPA pronunciation is \no.a\.
What does "noa" mean?
As a noun, "noa" means: Nom d’un cépage hybride américain franc de pied dont l’usage commercial est interdit en France depuis 1935. C'est un raisin blanc au goût foxé dont les petits grains se détachent de la rafle à matu...
What words are commonly confused with "noa"?
"noa" is commonly confused with "nu", "ny", "NS". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "noa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "noa" is \no.a\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "noa" come from?
"noa" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

oli#41,939ler#41,868ssi#42,065dép#41,754

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list