noli me tangere
\nɔ.li me tɑ̃.ʒe.ʁe\
The verdict
“noli me tangere” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Thème iconographique représentant la scène où Jésus s’adresse à Marie-Madeleine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noli me tangere |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ.li me tɑ̃.ʒe.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “noli me tangere” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for noli me tangere is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ.li me tɑ̃.ʒe.ʁe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for noli me tangere in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is noli me tangere, spelled N-O-L-I- -M-E- -T-A-N-G-E-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Thème iconographique représentant la scène où Jésus s’adresse à Marie-Madeleine.
- 2Désigne certaines plantes que le moindre attouchement flétrit, ou qui sont armées de fortes épines, ou dont les semences, s’élançant avec raideur quand on les touche, causent une sorte de surprise et une légère douleur.
- 3Désigne certaines plantes que le moindre attouchement flétrit, ou qui sont armées de fortes épines, ou dont les semences, s’élançant avec raideur quand on les touche, causent une sorte de surprise et une légère douleur.
- 4Ulcère de la face que les moyens thérapeutiques employés autrefois ne faisaient qu’aggraver.
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- The one correct French spelling is N-O-L-I- -M-E- -T-A-N-G-E-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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