noc
\nok\
The verdict
“noc” is uncommon French (frequency #74,229 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,229
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Canal en bois ou autre substance, servant à conduire un ruisseau, par exemple à lui faire franchir un fossé sans y tomber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-noc · noc · French
noc · rank #74,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,229
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH ndr
Nearest frequency peer: ndr (-2 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 « noc »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Nantua
Nantua
25,777 corpus weight
- Narendra
Narendra
25,776 corpus weight
- Naud
Naud
25,775 corpus weight
- ndr
ndr
25,774 corpus weight
- noc
noc
25,772 corpus weight
- notariales
notariales
25,768 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « noc » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nok\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #74,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « noc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
noc is uncommon French at frequency #74,229 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \nok\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for noc, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 noc, spelled N-O-C.
Definition
- 1Canal en bois ou autre substance, servant à conduire un ruisseau, par exemple à lui faire franchir un fossé sans y tomber.
- 2Tuyau servant à faire passer sous une route les eaux pluviales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how noc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce noc conduit l’eau dans une grande cuve au fond de laquelle il y a un tuyau de plomb qui conduit l’eau dans l’intérieur du laboratoire,...
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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