noblesse
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,266
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
noblesse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité de celui qui est noble. Pronounced \nɔ.blɛs\. It ranks #5,266 in French word frequency. Often confused with nobles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noblesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ.blɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for noblesse is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ.blɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,266 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for noblesse, with forms such as "nbolesse", "nnoblesse", and "nobblesse". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "nobles", 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 noblesse, spelled N-O-B-L-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualité de celui qui est noble.
- 2Tout le corps des hommes qualifiés nobles, ou une partie de ce corps.
- 3Groupe social qui s'arroge des privilèges et accapare le pouvoir dans une société.
- 4Grandeur ; élévation ; dignité.
- 5Caractère élevé de la composition, de l’expression, de la forme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nbolesse,nnoblesse,nobblesse,nobelsse,noblese,nobleses,nobllesse,noblsese,nolbesse,onblesse
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for noblesse
Misspelling Variants of "noblesse"
Frequency rank: #5,266 in French
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