Noé

\nɔ.e\

/\nɔ.e\/ name

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The verdict

“Noé” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,956) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#16,956
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage biblique qui, averti du déluge, se sauva avec sa famille et les animaux dans une arche.

Corpus desk

Index FR-noe · Noé · French

Noé · rank #16,956 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,956
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH nostalgique

Nearest frequency peer: nostalgique (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Noé »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « Noé » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Noé vs nu
0% similar
Noé vs ny
0% similar
Noé vs NS
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Noé
PropertyValue
HeadwordNoé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\nɔ.e\
Letters3
Frequency rank#16,956
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Noé »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Noése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « nostalgique » (#16,955), « obligent » (#16,957), « métamorphose » (#16,954). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « Noé » est au #16,956. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for Noé is neighbouring look-alikes ("nu", "ny", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \nɔ.e\. Frequency #16,956 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Personnage biblique qui, averti du déluge, se sauva avec sa famille et les animaux dans une arche.".

Noé doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "nu", "ny", "NS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Noé, spelled N-O-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personnage biblique qui, averti du déluge, se sauva avec sa famille et les animaux dans une arche.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Noé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un apologue juif, où les effets du vin sont exprimés à la manière orientale, nous apprend que le patriarche Noé s’étant éloigné un moment du premier pied de vigne qu’il venait de planter, Satan transporté de joie s’en approcha , en s’écriant : Chère plante, je veux t’arroser ! […].
  2. Et je n’aurai pas même le temps de visiter le mont Ararat, à l’endroit où s’est arrêtée, au quarantième jour du déluge, l’arche de Noé, ce chaland primitif de l’illustre patriarche !

This word in other languages

Noah(English)Noé(Español)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Noé"?
"Noé" is spelled N-O-É. The IPA pronunciation is \nɔ.e\.
What does "Noé" mean?
As a proper noun, "Noé" means: Personnage biblique qui, averti du déluge, se sauva avec sa famille et les animaux dans une arche.
What words are commonly confused with "Noé"?
"Noé" is commonly confused with "nu", "ny", "NS". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Noé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Noé" is \nɔ.e\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Noé" come from?
"Noé" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Noé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

paf#16,960sci#17,003imp#16,907SUV#17,016

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list