nocif
\nɔ.sif\
The verdict
“nocif” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,883. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,883
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est nuisible, qui a des effets malfaisants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nocif · nocif · French
nocif · rank #29,883 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,883
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nominés
Nearest frequency peer: nominés (+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 « nocif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- météorites
météorites
70,121 corpus weight
- Namibie
Namibie
70,120 corpus weight
- nocif
nocif
70,118 corpus weight
- nominés
nominés
70,117 corpus weight
- nuancer
nuancer
70,116 corpus weight
- nuggets
nuggets
70,115 corpus weight
What this shows « nocif » 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 | nocif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɔ.sif\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nocif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around nocif (IPA \nɔ.sif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,883 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est nuisible, qui a des effets malfaisants.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for nocif, with forms such as "ncoif", "nnocif", and "noccif". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "noi", "noir", "noix", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nocif, spelled N-O-C-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui est nuisible, qui a des effets malfaisants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nocif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cependant, réalisée dans de mauvaises conditions, la combustion du bois émet des polluants néfastes pour la santé, tels que furanes, benzènes, dioxines, composés organiques volatils (COV)… ainsi que des particules fines nocives.
Cet outil de protection, malgré une consommation d’énergie non négligeable (5,5 milliards de KWh annuel), demeure bien moins nocif et chronophage que la suppression manuelle du spam.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ncoif
- nnocif
- noccif
- nocfi
- nociff
- noicf
- oncif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nocif - 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
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).