noirceur
\nwaʁ.sœʁ\
The verdict
“noirceur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,631. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,631
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est noir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-noirceur · noirceur · French
noirceur · rank #22,631 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #22,631
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH niais
Nearest frequency peer: niais (-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 « noirceur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Nd
Nd
77,373 corpus weight
- Nelly
Nelly
77,372 corpus weight
- niais
niais
77,371 corpus weight
- noirceur
noirceur
77,370 corpus weight
- nope
nope
77,369 corpus weight
- Néron
Néron
77,368 corpus weight
What this shows « noirceur » 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 | noirceur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nwaʁ.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « noirceur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around noirceur (IPA \nwaʁ.sœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,631 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for noirceur, with forms such as "niorceur", "nnoirceur", and "noicreur". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "noircir", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is noirceur, spelled N-O-I-R-C-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est noir.
- 2Tache noire.
- 3Atrocité d’une action ou d’un caractère.
- 4Obscurité.
- 5Obscurité de la nuit.
- 6État obscur et inquiétant de l'esprit, loin de la vérité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how noirceur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La noirceur de la tourbe et des basaltes est coupée par des taches d'un gazon vert et abondant.
Il a des noirceurs au visage, une noirceur à la jambe.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- niorceur
- nnoirceur
- noicreur
- noircceur
- noirceru
- noirceurr
- noircuer
- noirecur
- noirrceur
- noriceur
- onirceur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of noirceur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "noirceur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).