nok
The verdict
“nok” is uncommon French (frequency #71,742 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,742
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’une civilisation éteinte du Nigéria.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nok · nok · French
nok · rank #71,742 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,742
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noma
Nearest frequency peer: noma (+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 « nok »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nivelé
nivelé
28,263 corpus weight
- NMD
NMD
28,262 corpus weight
- nok
nok
28,259 corpus weight
- noma
noma
28,258 corpus weight
- nomi
nomi
28,257 corpus weight
- noyait
noyait
28,256 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nok » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nok |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nok » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nok is uncommon French at frequency #71,742 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom d’une civilisation éteinte du Nigéria.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nok in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nok, spelled N-O-K.
Definition
- 1Nom d’une civilisation éteinte du Nigéria.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nok appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’année dernière, quand il a apporté la céramique nok qui trône sur la table du hall, il lui a dit que l’ancien peuple nok se servait des originaux pour le culte des ancêtres, qu’ils les plaçaient dans des sanctuaires, leur offraient des aliments.
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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