nom commun

/\nɔ̃ kɔ.mœ̃\/ noun

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10 characters

Language

French

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nom commun is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mot qui peut être un sujet ou un complément d’un verbe, représentant un concept, non pas un seul référent. Pronounced \nɔ̃ kɔ.mœ̃\.

Key facts for nom commun
PropertyValue
Headwordnom commun
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nɔ̃ kɔ.mœ̃\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

nom commun 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 commun is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɔ̃ kɔ.mœ̃\. 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: "Mot qui peut être un sujet ou un complément d’un verbe, représentant un concept, non pas un seul référent.".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Mot qui peut être un sujet ou un complément d’un verbe, représentant un concept, non pas un seul référent.

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How do you spell "nom commun"?
"nom commun" is spelled N-O-M- -C-O-M-M-U-N. The IPA pronunciation is \nɔ̃ kɔ.mœ̃\.
What does "nom commun" mean?
As a noun, "nom commun" means: Mot qui peut être un sujet ou un complément d’un verbe, représentant un concept, non pas un seul référent.
How do you pronounce "nom commun"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nom commun" is \nɔ̃ kɔ.mœ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nom commun" 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.