nobles
\nɔbl\
The verdict
“nobles” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,466. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,466
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de noble.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nobles · nobles · French
nobles · rank #7,466 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,466
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH médicales
Nearest frequency peer: médicales (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « nobles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mécaniques
mécaniques
92,537 corpus weight
- médicales
médicales
92,536 corpus weight
- nobles
nobles
92,535 corpus weight
- nommés
nommés
92,534 corpus weight
- nuire
nuire
92,533 corpus weight
- occurrence
occurrence
92,532 corpus weight
What this shows « nobles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nobles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɔbl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nobles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around nobles (IPA \nɔbl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,466 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de noble.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for nobles, with forms such as "nboles", "nnobles", and "nobbles". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "notes", "noces", "noyés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is nobles, spelled N-O-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de noble.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nobles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais ayant appris que plusieurs nobles lords, tout en admettant le principe du désaffranchissement pensaient que le nombre des bourgs à désaffranchir ne pouvait pas être arrêté avant que la cédule A, qui contient les noms de ces bourgs, n’eût elle-même été discutée, lord Grey annonça son intention de proposer l’omission des mots cinquante-six.
Je tiens à ce que chacun emporte un souvenir de la méthode Vologda pour éducation de demoiselles nobles, afin de vous désembéguiner de votre Maintenon, cette institutrice reine de France.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nboles
- nnobles
- nobbles
- nobels
- nobless
- noblles
- noblse
- nolbes
- onbles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nobles - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nobles", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).