nom collectif

/\nɔ̃ kɔ.lɛk.tif\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

nom collectif is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom désignant un ensemble de référents. En français, les mots foule, groupe, multitude, million, etc. sont des noms collectifs. Pronounced \nɔ̃ kɔ.lɛk.tif\.

Key facts for nom collectif
PropertyValue
Headwordnom collectif
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nɔ̃ kɔ.lɛk.tif\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

nom collectif is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for nom collectif is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ̃ kɔ.lɛk.tif\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom désignant un ensemble de référents. En français, les mots foule, groupe, multitude, million, etc. sont des noms collectifs.".

No misspelling variants are generated for nom collectif 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 nom collectif, spelled N-O-M- -C-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom désignant un ensemble de référents. En français, les mots foule, groupe, multitude, million, etc. sont des noms collectifs.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nom collectif"?
"nom collectif" is spelled N-O-M- -C-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-F. The IPA pronunciation is \nɔ̃ kɔ.lɛk.tif\.
What does "nom collectif" mean?
As a noun, "nom collectif" means: Nom désignant un ensemble de référents. En français, les mots foule, groupe, multitude, million, etc. sont des noms collectifs.
How do you pronounce "nom collectif"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nom collectif" is \nɔ̃ kɔ.lɛk.tif\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nom collectif" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.