noisette

\nwa.zɛt\

/\nwa.zɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“noisette” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,797. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,797
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit du noisetier à coque dure ovoïde de couleur brun-roux contenant une amande comestible (→ voir nucule).

Corpus desk

Index FR-noisette · noisette · French

noisette · rank #20,797 · 9 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #20,797
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH nationalisati…

Nearest frequency peer: nationalisation (-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 « noisette »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « noisette » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

noisette vs noisettes
89% similar

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

Key facts for noisette
PropertyValue
Headwordnoisette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nwa.zɛt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#20,797
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « noisette »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.noisettese 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 « nationalisation » (#20,796), « nourrisson » (#20,798), « nutella » (#20,799). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « noisette » est au #20,797. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around noisette (IPA \nwa.zɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,797 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for noisette, with forms such as "niosette", "nnoisette", and "noiestte". 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, "noisettes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is noisette, spelled N-O-I-S-E-T-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fruit du noisetier à coque dure ovoïde de couleur brun-roux contenant une amande comestible (→ voir nucule).
  2. 2
    Amande que l’on consomme après avoir cassé la coque.
  3. 3
    Nuance de couleur.
  4. 4
    Morceau de quelque chose de la grosseur d’une noisette.
  5. 5
    Café expresso avec un nuage de lait (→ voir café noisette).
  6. 6
    Forme simplifiée de café noisette.
  7. 7
    Petite tranche ronde de viande prélevée dans le gigot, le filet ou le carré.
  8. 8
    Charbon criblé aux dimensions de vingt à trente millimètres.
  9. 9
    Clitoris.
  10. 10
    Testicule, couille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Rien d’auſſi curieux que de lui en voir manger une. Après l’avoir tirée de ſon magazin, & l’avoir bien enfoncée dans une fente, il ſe tient debout au-deſſus la tête penchée en bas ; puis avec une adreſſe ſingulière, il frappe la noiſette avec son bec de toute sa force ; moyennant quoi, il l’ouvre & en mange l’amande.
  2. En termes de botanique, la noisette est un akène, séparé en deux cotylédons, dont la paroi est totalement lignifiée et enchâssée dans un involucre.

Synonyms

avelinenoix de coudremignonnettetête de moineau

This word in other languages

hazelnut(English)avellana(Español)Haselnuss(Deutsch)avelã(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • niosette
  • nnoisette
  • noiestte
  • noisete
  • noisetet
  • noissette
  • noistete
  • nosiette
  • onisette

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of noisette - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

niosette2nnoisette1noiestte2noisete1noisetet2noissette1noistete2nosiette2
Edit distance from "noisette"

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 "noisette"?
"noisette" is spelled N-O-I-S-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \nwa.zɛt\.
What does "noisette" mean?
As a noun, "noisette" means: Fruit du noisetier à coque dure ovoïde de couleur brun-roux contenant une amande comestible (→ voir nucule).
What words are commonly confused with "noisette"?
"noisette" is commonly confused with "noisettes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "noisette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "noisette" is \nwa.zɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "noisette" come from?
"noisette" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list