Nolte
\nɔlt\
The verdict
“Nolte” is uncommon French (frequency #96,185 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,185
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nolte · Nolte · French
Nolte · rank #96,185 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,185
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noctambule
Nearest frequency peer: noctambule (-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 « Nolte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nite
nite
3,820 corpus weight
- Niue
Niue
3,819 corpus weight
- nivo
nivo
3,818 corpus weight
- noctambule
noctambule
3,817 corpus weight
- Nolte
Nolte
3,816 corpus weight
- nombrilisme
nombrilisme
3,815 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Nolte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nolte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \nɔlt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Nolte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Nolte is uncommon French at frequency #96,185 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \nɔlt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Nolte has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Nolte, spelled N-O-L-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Nolte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nick Nolte n’arrêtait pas de claquer des stores et de verrouiller des portes.
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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