noch
\nɔx\
The verdict
“noch” is uncommon French (frequency #67,734 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,734
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Encore, adverbe qui sert à marquer que l’action ou l’état dont il s’agit se continue et dont la fin n'est pas définie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-noch · noch · French
noch · rank #67,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,734
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nitouche
Nearest frequency peer: nitouche (-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 « noch »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- neve
neve
32,270 corpus weight
- nha
nha
32,269 corpus weight
- nitouche
nitouche
32,268 corpus weight
- noch
noch
32,267 corpus weight
- Nollet
Nollet
32,266 corpus weight
- nommerai
nommerai
32,265 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « noch » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \nɔx\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « noch » en français
Rare enough to double-check
noch is uncommon French at frequency #67,734 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \nɔx\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 10 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for noch, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is noch, spelled N-O-C-H.
Definition
- 1Encore, adverbe qui sert à marquer que l’action ou l’état dont il s’agit se continue et dont la fin n'est pas définie.
- 2Adverbe qui indique qu'un événement, une condition se produira dans un certain délai.
- 3Adverbe qui indique qu'un événement, une condition se produira avant un moment donné.
- 4Adverbe qui indique qu'un événement, une condition se produira avant un point final donné.
- 5Adverbe qui indique qu'un événement, une condition s’est produit pour la dernière fois à la date indiquée et pas auparavant.
- 6Adverbe qui indique un ajout à quelque chose existante.
- 7Encore, renforce un comparatif.
- 8Adverbe qui indique un reste.
- 9Adverbe qui indique la limite de l’affirmation positive.
- 10Même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how noch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Noch zwei Jahre.
Er kam in der Mittagszeit, die Teller standen noch auf dem Tisch, und ich hatte noch eine halbe Stunde Freizeit, ehe ich in mein Büro gehen mußte.
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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