noble
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,513
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
noble is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est au-dessus du commun, des autres êtres ou objets du même genre. Pronounced \nɔbl\. It ranks #4,513 in French word frequency. Often confused with Noé and Note.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noble |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \nɔbl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for noble is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔbl\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,513 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for noble, with forms such as "nbole", "nnoble", and "nobble". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Noé", "Note", "Noël", 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 noble, spelled N-O-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est au-dessus du commun, des autres êtres ou objets du même genre.
- 2Dont la qualité morale est grande ou hautement appréciée.
- 3Qui commande le respect, l’admiration, par sa distinction, son autorité naturelle.
- 4Qui a de la majesté, une beauté grave, parfois un peu froide.
- 5Relatif à la noblesse.
- 6Qualifie des biens ou des terres tenus en fief ou des biens francs et exempts de charges que seuls les aristocrates peuvent posséder.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nbole,nnoble,nobble,noblle,nolbe,onble
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for noble
Misspelling Variants of "noble"
Frequency rank: #4,513 in French
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Nearby French words
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