nobilis
The verdict
“nobilis” is uncommon French (frequency #73,384 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,384
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Connaissable, notable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nobilis · nobilis · French
nobilis · rank #73,384 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,384
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH niçoises
Nearest frequency peer: niçoises (-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 « nobilis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- neurotoxique
neurotoxique
26,620 corpus weight
- nigauds
nigauds
26,619 corpus weight
- niçoises
niçoises
26,618 corpus weight
- nobilis
nobilis
26,617 corpus weight
- noircie
noircie
26,616 corpus weight
- noircis
noircis
26,615 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nobilis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nobilis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nobilis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nobilis is uncommon French at frequency #73,384 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
nobilis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is nobilis, spelled N-O-B-I-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Connaissable, notable.
- 2Connu, reconnu, célèbre, renommé, illustre.
- 3Noble, de naissance illustre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nobilis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
addidit facinori fidem nobili gaudio
ille nobilis taurus, quem Phalaris habuisse dicitur
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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