noblesses
\nɔ.blɛs\
The verdict
“noblesses” is uncommon French (frequency #95,112 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,112
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de noblesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-noblesses · noblesses · French
noblesses · rank #95,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,112
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH niquet
Nearest frequency peer: niquet (-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 « noblesses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nigériennes
nigériennes
4,892 corpus weight
- ninette
ninette
4,891 corpus weight
- niquet
niquet
4,890 corpus weight
- noblesses
noblesses
4,889 corpus weight
- noisetiers
noisetiers
4,888 corpus weight
- nonagénaire
nonagénaire
4,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « noblesses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noblesses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ.blɛs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « noblesses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
noblesses is uncommon French at frequency #95,112 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɔ.blɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de noblesse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for noblesses, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is noblesses, spelled N-O-B-L-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de noblesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how noblesses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur le continent, les noblesses orientales jouissent de privilèges beaucoup plus considérables que les noblesses occidentales, en particulier dans les affaires de justice.
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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